Re: WIP: a way forward on bootstrap data

On 4/5/18, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Here are the results of an evening's desultory hacking on v13.
>
> [numeric function oids with overloaded name]

Thank you for the detailed review and for improving the function
references (not to mention the type references I somehow left on the
table). I was also not quite satisfied with just the regproc columns.

> I did not like the hard-wired handling of proargtypes and proallargtypes
> in genbki.pl; it hardly seems impossible that we'll want similar
> conversions for other array-of-OID columns in future.  After a bit of
> thought, it seemed like we could allow
>
>     oidvector    proargtypes BKI_LOOKUP(pg_type);
>
>     Oid          proallargtypes[1] BKI_DEFAULT(_null_) BKI_LOOKUP(pg_type);
>
> and just teach genbki.pl that if a lookup rule is attached to
> an oidvector or Oid[] column, it means to apply the rule to
> each array element individually.

I think that's a good idea. I went an extra step and extracted the
common logic into a function (attached draft patch to be applied on
top of yours). It treats all lookups as operating on arrays. The
common case is that we pass a single-element array. That may seem
awkward, but I think it's clear. The code is slimmer, and the lines
now fit within 80 characters.

> I also changed genbki.pl so that it'd warn about entries that aren't
> recognized by the lookup rules.  This seems like a good idea for
> catching errors, such as (ahem) applying BKI_LOOKUP to a column
> that isn't even an OID.

Yikes, I must have fat-fingered that during the comment reformatting.

Unrelated, I noticed my quoting of defaults that contain back-slashes
was half-baked, so I'll include that fix in the next patchset. I'll
put out a new one in a couple days, to give a chance for further
review and discussion of the defaults. I didn't feel the need to
respond to the other messages, but yours and Andres' points are well
taken.

-John Naylor