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Re: WIP: a way forward on bootstrap data

John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>

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From: John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-04-06T04:08:30Z
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On 4/6/18, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Just had another thought about this business: if practical, we should
> remove the distinction between "descr" and "shdescr" and just use the
> former name in .dat files.  genbki.pl knows which catalogs are shared,
> so it ought to be able to figure out where to route the descriptions.

Fairly trivial (attached), and shouldn't be too hard to integrate into
the series.

-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