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From Andres Freund
Subject Re: What's the point of allow_system_table_mods?
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Msg-id 20190510191926.epuaod6yky2dawoy@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: What's the point of allow_system_table_mods?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: What's the point of allow_system_table_mods?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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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