Re: Assigning fixed OIDs to system catalogs and indexes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Assigning fixed OIDs to system catalogs and indexes
Date: 2005-04-18 17:49:23
Message-ID: 24117.1113846563@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> If you are looking for things that will fundamentally break the system,
>> try renaming one of the indexes of a core system catalog ;-). We could
>> avoid that dependency if we went by OIDs instead.

> Right now you can use a temporary table in place of a system
> table using the temporary schema. Would that still work?

Sure. This doesn't change any externally visible behavior ... other
than the response to unsupported changes to the system catalogs ;-)

regards, tom lane

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