Re: reducing the footprint of ScanKeyword (was Re: Large writable variables)

John Naylor <john.naylor@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 5:31 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> The length macro was readily available there so I used it.  AFAIR
>> that wasn't true elsewhere, though I might've missed something.
>> It's pretty much just belt-and-suspenders coding anyway, since all
>> those arrays are machine generated ...

> I tried using the available num_keywords macro in plpgsql and it
> worked fine, but it makes the lines really long. Alternatively, as in
> the attached, we could remove the single use of the core macro and
> maybe add comments to the generated magic numbers.

Meh, I'm not excited about removing the option just because there's
only one use of it now.  There might be more-compelling uses later.

			regards, tom lane