| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Clarify "allow_system_table_mods" |
| Date: | 2016-04-26 00:18:16 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwZE9kocjA4iaW_Qsq9wLEuw_Hdzr-abTbr_YCNfy3wHNw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Monday, April 25, 2016, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> Melvin,
>
> * Melvin Davidson (melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com <javascript:;>) wrote:
> > So in essence "*Allows modification of the structure of system tables"
> does
> > NOT allow _structural_ changes (probably only dml changes)
> > and the documentation should be changed to clarify.
>
> That would imply that other changes are acceptable. That is not the
> case. Certain DML changes could cause crashes too.
>
> The documentation is pretty clear that this option is for initdb, and
> not anyone else. I'm unconvinced that we need anything more.
>
>
If anything it should be shortened to simply that.
David J.
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