Re: execute sql commands in core - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: execute sql commands in core
Date
Msg-id 9758.1262705384@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: execute sql commands in core  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:56 AM, black light <blacklight1600@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In fact, i want to add a table to system catalog and SELECT/UPDATE it from
>> auth.c.

> If you are considering proposing your patch for inclusion in the
> PostgreSQL upstream sources, you should first discuss why you are
> trying to do this and what you hope to get out of it.  There might be
> a way to do whatever it is you are trying to do without modifying the
> source code.

One point worth noting is that there is precisely zero hope of making
that work in any existing release series, because auth.c doesn't run
inside a transaction.  You could probably make it work with recent CVS
HEAD though (ie, since we pulled the plug on the flat auth file).
        regards, tom lane


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