On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 11:29 PM Rui Zhao <xiyuan...@alibaba-inc.com> wrote: > Thank you for your response. It is evident that there is a need > for this features in our system. > Firstly, our customers express their desire to utilize tablespaces > for table management, without necessarily being concerned about > the directory location of these tablespaces.
That's not the purpose of that feature. I'm not sure that we should be worrying about users who want to use features for a purpose other than the one for which they were designed. > Secondly, currently PG only supports absolute-path tablespaces, but > in-place tablespaces are very likely to become popular in the future. That's not really a reason. If you said why this was going to happen, that might be a reason, but just asserting that it will happen isn't. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com