Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tom Lane said:
> >The
> > scenario that causes the problem is
> >
> >     CREATE TABLESPACE
> >     ...
> >     much time passes
> >     ...
> >     CHECKPOINT
> >     ...
> >     modify tables in tablespace
> >     drop tables in tablespace
> >     DROP TABLESPACE
> >     ...
> >     system crash
> >
> > Now the system needs to replay from the last checkpoint.  It's going to
> > hit updates to tables that aren't there anymore in a tablespace that's
> > not there anymore.  There will not be anything in the replayed part of
> > the log that will give a clue where that tablespace was physically.
> >
> 
> Could we create the tables in the default tablespace? Or create a dummy
> tablespace (since it's not there we expect it to be removed anyway, don't
> we?) I guess the big danger would be running out of disk space, but maybe
> that is a lower risk than this one.

Uh, why is the symlink not going to be there already?

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