Re: [HACKERS] Creating a zero-column table

[Philip Warner]

At 12:31 AM 13/12/2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

        Amy does CREATE TABLE foo(f1 beths_type);
        Beth now cannot drop her type beths_type.
In most circles this would be called a denial of service.

Seems like a feature - if beth made the type public, she has to deal with fame. I don't see it as different from preventing a dropdb when it is being accessed, or unmounting a disk while it is being accessed. But I resume this argument has already been had...


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