Re: allow_system_table_mods stuff

On 2019-Jun-28, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Here is a new patch after the discussion.
>
> - Rename allow_system_table_mods to allow_system_table_ddl.
>
> (This makes room for a new allow_system_table_dml, but it's not
> implemented here.)
>
> - Make allow_system_table_ddl SUSET.
>
> - Add regression test.
>
> - Remove the behavior that allow_system_table_mods allowed
> non-superusers to do DML on catalog tables without further access checking.
>
> I think there was general agreement on all these points.

I think this patch is at a point where it merits closer review from
fellow committers, so I marked it RfC for now. I hope non-committers
would also look at it some more, though.

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