Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 19:34:59 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: 'pg_global' cannot be used as default_tablespace.
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On Wed, Nov  1, 2023 at 07:12:48PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Wed, Nov  1, 2023 at 06:32:37PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> But it *is* permissible, unless we add code to reject it during
> >> SET as Bruce mentioned.  Which seems fairly pointless to me.  It's not
> >> like there is anything unclear about the CREATE TABLE error message.
> 
> > Yeah, from the report I thought something bad happened if you tried to
> > use it and that is why we had to document it.  By documenting it we are
> > just giving the user advice before they get the error.  I wrote up this
> > minimal patch which might have the right level of detail to avoid
> > errors, if people think this is useful.
> 
> I think this will lead to just as much confusion, because people
> will read it and expect that SET will fail.
> 
> If we need to document any more than we have now, we should point
> out in the CREATE TABLE man page that you can't create a table in
> the pg_global tablespace.  That will cover both this case and the
> case of trying to select pg_global explicitly in the CREATE.
> 
> Another idea could be to adjust this bit in manage-ag.sgml:
> 
>    Two tablespaces are automatically created when the database cluster
>    is initialized.  The
> -  <literal>pg_global</literal> tablespace is used for shared system catalogs. The
> +  <literal>pg_global</literal> tablespace is used for shared system catalogs,
> +  and cannot be used for user-defined tables. The
>    <literal>pg_default</literal> tablespace is the default tablespace of the

I like the manage-ag.sgml change myself.

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