> The key to understanding the problem is to realize that system > catalogs are pretty much regular tables in PostgreSQL, with some > additional special rules (no triggers, can't be CLUSTERed or ALTERed, > &c). Anything you'd do in a regular table that would create a dead > tuple UPDATEs, DELETEs, &c will have the same effect on a catalog.
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