Review wording on tablespaces w.r.t. partitioned tables

Remove a redundant comment, and document pg_class.reltablespace properly
in catalogs.sgml.

After commits a36c84c3e4a9, 87259588d0ab and others.

Backpatch to 12.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202403191013[email protected]

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml
index 565090774db19d85cd494810563c259d9861968f..ddf4548828f4a3e31fa7d438e2b9afd7aa9027b2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml
@@ -1980,9 +1980,12 @@ SCRAM-SHA-256$<iteration count>:&l
        (references pg_tablespace.oid)
       
       
-       The tablespace in which this relation is stored.  If zero,
-       the database's default tablespace is implied.  (Not meaningful
-       if the relation has no on-disk file.)
+       The tablespace in which this relation is stored.
+       If zero, the database's default tablespace is implied.
+       Not meaningful if the relation has no on-disk file,
+       except for partitioned tables, where this is the tablespace
+       in which partitions will be created when one is not
+       specified in the creation command.
       
      
 

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
index 8b27ab9739a45ddf20f9bc0ddf1bdf56fe1125de..9802c0c69fe917a1cb5187092d30232f7bc11624 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
@@ -782,10 +782,6 @@ DefineRelation(CreateStmt *stmt, char relkind, Oid ownerId,
    }
    else if (stmt->partbound)
    {
-       /*
-        * For partitions, when no other tablespace is specified, we default
-        * the tablespace to the parent partitioned table's.
-        */
        Assert(list_length(inheritOids) == 1);
        tablespaceId = get_rel_tablespace(linitial_oid(inheritOids));
    }