Re: Re: [SQL] Re: pg_dump potential bug -UNIQUE INDEX on PG_SHADOW Dont!! HELP

> 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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