In my previous job we had several KLUDGE_TABLES as a way for our DBA to remind people that they were asking him to add a dirty hack that they promised to remove

In my previous job we had several KLUDGE_TABLES as a way for our DBA to remind people that they were asking him to add a dirty hack that they promised to remove once the 'crisis' was gone. Five years later, they were still in there. At least the person querying it still had to type 'SELECT * FROM KLUDGE_…'