Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > It is a little bit different because a schema, a table or a function are
> > database application issues and are normally addressed by pg_dump and
> > pg_restore, although tablespaces are more an administration issue wrt disk
> > layout and the like, which are likely to be different from one machine to
> > another (compare with I obviously want the same schema/table/function for
> > my application). So the notion of dump/restore of a tablespace need
> > some careful thinking.
> > 
> > But maybe I'm just stupid to dream that I could restore or transfer my
> > data even if I used a tablespace somewhere? ;-)
> 
> OK, perhaps.  It it not easy to implement however, since the tablespace 
> clause on indexes comes from the pg_get_indexdef() function and isn't 
> added by pg_dump.
> 
> Bruce - pg_dump TODO for --no-tablespace or something?

Uh, TODO already has:

* Allow database recovery where tablespaces can't be created

  When a pg_dump is restored, all tablespaces will attempt to be created
  in their original locations. If this fails, the user must be able to
  adjust the restore process.

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