Ashwin Agrawal <aagra...@pivotal.io> writes: > Proposing to create directory with timestamp at time of creating tablespace > and create symbolic link to it instead.
I'm skeptical that this solves your problem. What happens when the CREATE TABLESPACE command is replicated to the standby with sub-second delay? Clock skew is another reason to doubt that timestamp == unique identifier, which is essentially what you're assuming here. Even if we fixed that, the general idea of including a quasi-random component in the directory name seems like it would have a lot of unpleasant side effects in terms of reproduceability, testability, etc. regards, tom lane