Re: ALTER TABLE on system catalogs

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 01:37:33PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2018-06-27 22:31:30 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I propose that we instead silently ignore attempts to add TOAST tables
>> to shared and system catalogs after bootstrapping.
> 
> That seems like an extremely bad idea to me.  I'd rather go ahead and
> just add the necessary toast tables than silently violate preconditions
> that code assumes are fulfilled.

Agreed.  Joe Conway was working on a patch to do exactly that.  I was
personally looking for the possibility of having one with pg_authid in
v12 :)
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Michael