Re: erroneous restore into pg_catalog schema - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> It disallowed it only for tables, and not for any other object type.
>> I found that completely arbitrary.  It's perfectly obvious that people
>> want to be able to create objects in pg_catalog; shall we adopt a rule
>> that you can put extension there, as long as those extensions don't
>> happen to contain tables?  That is certainly confusing and arbitrary.
>
> Why don't we just prohibit deletion/modification for anything below
> FirstNormalObjectId instead of using the schema as a restriction? Then
> we can allow creation for tables as well.

We currently do, but that led to problems with $SUBJECT.

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