Re: Catalog insertion

Sounds like a Bad Idea(tm) to me. If you want to create extra systemmy tables, then why not set up your own private resources, and put them there instead???

Steve

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:22:05 +0200 (CEST)
Carmen Martinez <carmenmtezcruz(at)yahoo(dot)es> wrote:

> I want to insert new tables in the pg_catalog schema. So I have to execute a common create table sentence like "Create Table pg_catalog.newTable ....", but I am not allowed to do that and I do not know why.
>
> Following I show one of the sentences I execute and the error messages
>
>
> One of the tables I try to create is:
>
> CREATE TABLE pg_catalog.COL_LIST ( OBJ OID NOT NULL, COL OID NOT NULL, T_TYPE numeric(1) NOT NULL, LEN numeric(2) NOT NULL, COM varchar(100) , PRIMARY KEY (OBJ, COL) , CONSTRAINT LEN_TOO_LONG_IN_COL_LIST CHECK (LEN>=1 AND LEN<=10), CONSTRAINT TYPE_MUST_BE_1_2_o_3 CHECK (T_TYPE=1 OR T_TYPE=2 OR T_TYPE=3))
>
> ERROR: permission denied to create "pg_catalog.col_list"
> DETAIL: System catalog modifications are currently disallowed.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> escribió: Carmen Martinez escribió:
> > Hello,
> > I am trying to include new tables in the PG catalog. Also, I am doing
> > that using the JDBC interface in a Java program. But when I connect to
> > de Postgress template1 database and I execute the CREATE TABLE
> > sentence an error message appears saying: "System catalog
> > modifications are currently disallowed".
> >
> > Please, I need help to know how to allow to modify the system catalog .
>
> What CREATE TABLE exactly?
>
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