On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:20:51AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I do see value in two switches not one, but it's what I said above,
> to not need to give people *more* chance-to-break-things than they
> had before when doing manual catalog fixes. That is, we need a
> setting that corresponds more or less to current default behavior.
>
> There's an aesthetic argument to be had about whether to have two
> bools or one three-way switch, but I prefer the former; there's
> no backward-compatibility issue here since allow_system_table_mods
> couldn't be set by applications anyway.
I like a single three-way switch since if you are allowing DDL, you
probably don't care if you restrict DML. log_statement already has a
similar distinction with values of none, ddl, mod, all. I assume
allow_system_table_mods could have value of false, dml, true.
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