Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2018-08-20 14:38:25 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> Do you have an alternative in mind?
> One is to just not do anything. I'm not sure I'm on board with the goal > of changing things to make DDL on system tables more palatable. FWIW, I agree with doing as little as possible here. I'd be on board with Andres' suggestion of just swapping the two code stanzas so that the no-op case doesn't error out. As soon as you go beyond that, you are in wildly unsafe and untested territory. regards, tom lane