Re: BUG #16577: Segfault on altering a table located in a dropped tablespace

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, exclusion@gmail.com, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2020-09-08T21:37:29Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
On 2020-Sep-08, Michael Paquier wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 04:04:07PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > Hmm.  Creating a file for partitioned table would be a completely new
> > thing as well.  heap_create() has never created a file for partitioned
> > tables since 10 so this could open to a new class of bugs.
> 
> This thread has stalled for a couple of weeks now, and I would tend to
> take the path where we'd basically revert 8725958 and ca41030.  That's
> too late for v13 to do anything about that.  But not for 14.  Any
> opinions?

Well, naturally I oppose this idea.

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Commits

  1. Prevent drop of tablespaces used by partitioned relations

  2. Don't create relfilenode for relations without storage