Re: Re: [SQL] Re: pg_dump potential bug -UNIQUE INDEX on PG_SHADOW Dont!! HELP

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Marcin Kowalski <kowalski(at)datrix(dot)co(dot)za>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: [SQL] Re: pg_dump potential bug -UNIQUE INDEX on PG_SHADOW Dont!! HELP
Date: 2001-04-01 00:58:17
Message-ID: 200104010058.TAA21172@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > First, here is a patch which will prevent this from happening in the
> > future. Do people want this held for 7.2 or applied now? It disables
> > the creation of user indexes on system tables.
>
> > + if (heapRelationName && !allow_system_table_mods &&
> > + IsSystemRelationName(heapRelationName) && IsNormalProcessingMode())
> > + {
> > + elog(ERROR, "You can not create indexes on system tables: '%s'",
> > + heapRelationName);
> > + }
> > +
>
> I think it would be a real good idea to put in this safeguard, but
> I don't much like that error message. How about
>
> elog(ERROR, "User-defined indexes on system catalogs are not supported");

Change made to patch.

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