Re: WIP: a way forward on bootstrap data

John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>

From: John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-02-23T07:38:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Version 8, rebased against 76b6aa41f41d.

-John Naylor

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