Parse catalog .dat files as a whole when compiling the backend

John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>

Commit: 69eb643b2582f180c91b2d14c896402e54040231
Author: John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-09-08T06:55:41Z
Releases: 16.0
Parse catalog .dat files as a whole when compiling the backend

Previously Catalog.pm eval'd each individual hash reference
so that comments and whitespace can be preserved when running
reformat-dat-files. This is unnecessary when building, and we can save
~15% off the run time of genbki.pl by simply slurping and eval'-ing
the whole file at once. This saves a bit of time, especially in highly
parallel builds, since most build targets depend on this script's outputs.

Report and review by Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFBsxsGW%3DWRbnxXrc8UqqR479XuxtukSFWV-hnmtgsbuNAUO6w%40mail.gmail.com

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