On 20/08/2018 12:48, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2018-08-20 11:37:49 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:05:10AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> After reviewing that thread, I think my patch would still be relevant.
>>> Because the pending proposal is to not add TOAST tables to some catalogs
>>> such as pg_attribute, so my original use case of allowing ALTER TABLE /
>>> SET on system catalogs would still be broken for those tables.
>>
>> Something has happened in this area in the shape of 96cdeae, and the
>> following catalogs do not have toast tables: pg_class, pg_index,
>> pg_attribute and pg_largeobject*. While 0001 proposed upthread is not
>> really relevant anymore because there is already a test to list which
>> catalogs do not have a toast table. For 0002, indeed the patch is still
>> seems relevant. The comment block at the beginning of
>> create_toast_table should be updated.
>
> I still object to the approach in 0002.
Do you have an alternative in mind?
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