Re: What's the point of allow_system_table_mods?

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What's the point of allow_system_table_mods?
Date: 2019-05-10 19:19:26
Message-ID: 20190510191926.epuaod6yky2dawoy@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2019-05-10 15:00:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> What exactly is the motivation for changing this now, after 20 years?

That I've seen enough corruption and other hard to investigate issues
related to manual catalog modifications to make me complain. Note that
other have complained about this before, too.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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