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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:45:44 +0200
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: mariusraicu@laposte.net, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG #18167: cannot create partitioned tables when
 default_tablespace is set
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On 2023-Oct-24, PG Bug reporting form wrote:

> marius@[local]:5434/postgres=# show default_tablespace;
>  default_tablespace 
> --------------------
>  tblspc1
> (1 row)
> 
> marius@[local]:5434/postgres=# create tablespace tblspc1 location
> '/home/marius/pgcode/tblspc1';
> CREATE TABLESPACE
> marius@[local]:5434/postgres=# create database test tablespace tblspc1;
> CREATE DATABASE
> marius@[local]:5434/postgres=# \c test
> You are now connected to database "test" as user "marius".
> marius@[local]:5434/test=# create table toto(id numeric) partition by
> list(id);
> ERROR:  cannot specify default tablespace for partitioned relations

Oh, so the problem here is that *both* default_tablespace and the
database's tablespace are set, and then a partitioned table creation
fails when it doesn't specify any tablespace?  That indeed sounds like a
bug.  I'll have a look, thanks.  I'm surprised it took so long for this
to be reported.

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Álvaro Herrera               48°01'N 7°57'E  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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