Re: erroneous restore into pg_catalog schema

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>
Subject: Re: erroneous restore into pg_catalog schema
Date: 2013-05-13 17:40:57
Message-ID: 7408.1368466857@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> 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.

AFAIR there are no code restrictions based on OID value. We've got
restrictions based on things being in pg_catalog or not, and we've got
restrictions based on things being marked pinned in pg_depend.

Looking at the OID range might be a reasonable proxy for pinned-ness,
though, and it would certainly be a lot cheaper than a lookup in
pg_depend.

regards, tom lane

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