Re: Re: [SQL] Re: pg_dump potential bug -UNIQUE INDEX on PG_SHADOW Dont!! HELP
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Marcin Kowalski <kowalski@datrix.co.za>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-04-01T00:58:17Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > First, here is a patch which will prevent this from happening in the
> > future. Do people want this held for 7.2 or applied now? It disables
> > the creation of user indexes on system tables.
>
> > + if (heapRelationName && !allow_system_table_mods &&
> > + IsSystemRelationName(heapRelationName) && IsNormalProcessingMode())
> > + {
> > + elog(ERROR, "You can not create indexes on system tables: '%s'",
> > + heapRelationName);
> > + }
> > +
>
> I think it would be a real good idea to put in this safeguard, but
> I don't much like that error message. How about
>
> elog(ERROR, "User-defined indexes on system catalogs are not supported");
Change made to patch.
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