Re: erroneous restore into pg_catalog schema

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>
Subject: Re: erroneous restore into pg_catalog schema
Date: 2013-05-13 16:35:13
Message-ID: 5974.1368462913@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> Another way to fix that inconsistency is to consider that
> allow_system_table_mods should gate table creations not just drops in
> pg_catalog. I'm not real sure why this wasn't the case all along ...

Uh, scratch that last comment: actually, allow_system_table_mods *did*
gate that, in every existing release. I bitched upthread about the fact
that this was changed in 9.3, and did not hear any very satisfactory
defense of the change.

regards, tom lane

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