Re: [EXT]: Re: BUG #18604: Regression in PostgreSQL 16.4: pg_dump Prevents Essential System Table Modifications

> On Sep 6, 2024, at 16:44, Basha <Basha@maxcontact.com> wrote:
> If shadowing system catalogs via views is not a recommended path, we would be grateful for guidance on alternative approaches to achieve the same result—restricting visibility of databases in a multi-tenant environment while maintaining essential operations like backups. Specifically, is there a supported way to enforce database isolation at the system catalog level, or is there a possibility of introducing a more granular control over pg_dump in such cases?

The closest analogy that I've seen in the field is what Heroku does (did?) for database-based multitenancy, which is to assign very random names to the databases, without revealing any client names or other human-readable data.  That the databases existed was still visible in pg_database, but it leaked no substantial information to users connected to other databases.