Re: Truncation of mapped catalogs (whether local or shared) leads to server crash

On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 8:10 AM Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that truncating mapped catalogs causes the server to
> crash due to an assertion failure. Here are the details:
>
> Executing below commands:
>
> -- set allow_system_table_mods TO on;
> -- truncate table pg_type;

If the operation isn't allowed without turning on
allow_system_table_mods, that means that doing it is probably a bad
idea and will probably break stuff, as happened here.

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