On Apr 30, 2013, at 8:13 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Appears to be sheer blather, or at least not tempered by any thoughts > of whether it'd work in special cases. As the author of that blog post, I'd go with option (b). :) And that lack of tempering was actually the point. The point there was that having the tablespace directories disappear shouldn't be considered a normal operational model. (Like, for example, putting a tablespace in a RAM disk.) There's no question that you can patch the database back together if the underlying storage of a tablespace disappears, but that should be thought of as disaster recovery, not as a "oh, third time this week" operation. -- -- Christophe Pettus xof@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general