On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:37:28PM -0500, Kris Jurka wrote: > > > 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 I'll argue that the current behavior is still a bug and should be fixed. Would it be difficult to patch 8.1 (and 8.0 if there were tablespaces then...) to honor default_tablespace? -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461