On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 02:16:35PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Jim Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> where are these relations?  is this a compile-time thing, or can it be done
> >> on-the-fly?
> 
> > Compile-time; see SharedSystemRelationNames in
> > backend/utils/init/globals.c.  You'd have to do an initdb after changing
> > it, anyway.
> 
> BTW, the reason that pg_shadow is installation-wide is that it's
> not real clear what the 'ownership' column in pg_database means
> if users are not installation-wide.  Before cutting and hacking,
> you'd need to think carefully about just what semantics you are
> really after.

theoretically, if i nuked everything from SharedSystemRelationNames, then
each database would be wholly stand-alone, and the remaining code should just
work?


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