Tom Lane wrote:
> Philip Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > So, if you do make the changes, will the schema definition be affected by 
> > those changes, or do you expect the tablespace to be embedded in the CREATE 
> > SCHEMA command?
> 
> I thought the idea was for pg_dump to emit something like
> 
>       SET magic_tablespace_variable = some_ts;
> 
>       CREATE TABLE foo (columns...);
> 
> rather than
> 
>       CREATE TABLE foo (columns...) TABLESPACE some_ts;
> 
> the point being no more and no less than this: if "some_ts" doesn't
> exist (or you have other problems like insufficient permissions) then
> the SET command will fail but CREATE TABLE will still succeed, allowing
> the restore to complete in some reasonable fashion.

Right, this would eliminate our non-standard TABLESPACE clause appearing
in pg_dump CREATE TABLEs.

> I am quite unsure why you are pushing this while also insisting that
> we need "die_on_errors" mode for pg_restore.  If you are going to die
> on the first error then these alternatives are equally brittle.

I assume he wants to give users maximum flexibility.

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