"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sunday, July 28, 2024, Stepan Neretin <sncfmgg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, David. I have read this page several times and have not answered my >> question. I'm probably not paying attention. Can you, I wanted to quote >> what I'm missing out on > “The location must be an existing, empty directory that is owned by the > PostgreSQL operating system user.” Indeed, that doesn't directly answer the question, but I think the implication is clear: we do not expect a tablespace directory to contain anything except files that Postgres itself puts there. I don't actually see the point of the described setup anyway. There is zero value that I can see in putting two tablespaces on the same physical volume --- they won't provide any interesting separation. regards, tom lane