Re: Do third party products add access paths to system tables often?

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

I understand that you're asking how many might be doing this. But isn't the
real question whether this is a bad practice or not? Is it relevant whether
it's done by 3rd parties vs. in-house?


On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 7:14 AM David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Folks:
>
> I was just reviewing an old support case where the cause of the problem
> was that a 3rd party product added a index or view over a system table.
>
> That seems like a very bad idea to me.
>
> How many 3rd party products do this?  I'm just curious.
>
> david
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