Re: Broken HOT chains in system catalogs

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
 
> This amounts to assuming that no new indexes get added to system
> catalogs after initdb, or at least not during concurrent
> operations wherein indcheckxmin would be important.
 
Sounds reasonable, but can we enforce it through locks rather than
assuming, or isn't there a clear way to do that without risking
deadlocks?
 
-Kevin