2013/5/1 Yang Zhang <yanghates...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> > wrote: >> On 2013.04.30 4:55 PM, Yang Zhang wrote: >>> >>> I would intuit that it's fine, but I just want to make sure there are >>> no gotchas from a recovery point of view: >>> >>> If I were to lose my temp tablespace upon system crash, would this >>> prevent proper crash recovery? >>> >>> Also, if I were to omit the temp tablespace from the base backup, >>> would that prevent proper backup recovery? >> >> >> Although it would be nice if what you said would work, I read in a recent >> blog post that losing any tablespace would prevent the database server from >> starting, even if it was only for temporary things. -- Darren Duncan > > That is unfortunate. Good thing I asked, I guess. Do you have a > pointer to said blog post?
I think this is the post in question: http://thebuild.com/blog/2013/03/10/you-cannot-recover-from-the-loss-of-a-tablespace/ (BTW please try not to top-post :) ) Regards Ian Barwick -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
