On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 11:45:49PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.
Or, to match log_statement, use: none, dml, all.
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