On 11/1/21, 10:43 AM, "Stephen Frost" <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > Folks playing around in the catalog can break lots of things, I don't > really see this as an argument against the idea. > > I do wonder if we should put a bit more effort into preventing people > from messing with functions and such in pg_catalog. Being able to do > something like: > > create or replace function xpath ( text, xml ) returns xml[] > as $$ begin return 'xml'; end; $$ language plpgsql; > > (or with much worse functions..) strikes me as just a bit too easy to > mistakenly cause problems as a superuser. Still, that's really an > independent issue from this discussion. It's not like someone breaking > CHECKPOINT; would actually impact normal checkpoints anyway.
Yeah, I see your point. Nathan
