On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
Ok, I saw disk activity on the base directory and assumed it was pg_xlog stuff. Turns out that both SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS ignore default_tablepsace and create the new tables in the base directory. I'm guessing that's a bug... (this is on 8.1.2, btw).
This has been fixed in CVS HEAD as part of a patch to allow additional options to CREATE TABLE AS.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-02/msg00211.php Kris Jurka
