Re: initdb: Refactor PG_CMD_PUTS loops

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-12-05T22:40:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 02.12.22 15:07, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 2022-12-01 Th 05:02, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Keeping the SQL commands that initdb runs in string arrays before
>> feeding them to PG_CMD_PUTS() seems unnecessarily verbose and
>> inflexible.  In some cases, the array only has one member.  In other
>> cases, one might want to use PG_CMD_PRINTF() instead, to parametrize a
>> command, but that would require breaking up the loop or using
>> workarounds like replace_token().  This patch unwinds all that; it's
>> much simpler that way.
> 
> Looks reasonable. (Most of this dates back to 2003/2004, the very early
> days of initdb.c.)

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  1. initdb: Refactor PG_CMD_PUTS loops