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Re: WIP: a way forward on bootstrap data

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-12-22T01:31:37Z
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> Hmm, patch 0008 removes data lines from the .h but leaves the dependent
> OID define lines around:

Just a question here -- do we actually have consensus on doing the
stuff that these patches do?  Because I'm not sure we do.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Commits

  1. Clarify handling of special-case values in bootstrap catalog data.

  2. Replace our traditional initial-catalog-data format with a better design.

  3. Faster partition pruning

  4. Minor cleanup in genbki.pl.

  5. Trivial adjustments in preparation for bootstrap data conversion.

  6. Remove hard-coded schema knowledge about pg_attribute from genbki.pl

  7. Minor edits to catalog files and scripts

  8. Hide most variable-length fields from Form_pg_* structs