Re: pg_shadow.usecatupd attribute

Yes, I vote for removal.

> While I'm at it and before I forget the 76 places one needs to edit to
> add/remove a system catalog column, what are people's feelings about the
> usecatupd column?
>
> The use of this field is that, if false, it disallows any direct
> modification of system catalogs, even for superusers. In the past there
> were several opinions that this field was useless/confusing/stupid/not
> worthwhile.
>
> I'm also going to remove the usetrace column, since that's not used.
>
> (post-7.1 material, btw.)
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/
>
>

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