Re: WIP: a way forward on bootstrap data

On 3/4/18, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 3/3/18, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> * In 0006, I'm not very pleased with the introduction of
>>> "Makefile.headers".
>
>> I wasn't happy with it either, but I couldn't get it to build
>> otherwise. The sticking point was the symlinks in
>> $(builddir)/src/include/catalog.  $(MAKE) -C catalog doesn't handle
>> that. The makefile in /src/common relies on the backend makefile to
>> know what to invoke for a given header. IIRC, relpath.c includes
>> pg_tablespace.h, which now requires pg_tablespace_d.h to be built.
>
> I'm not following.  AFAICS, what you put in src/common/Makefile was just
>
> +.PHONY: generated-headers
> +
> +generated-headers:
> +	$(MAKE) -C ../backend generated-headers
>
> which doesn't appear to care whether backend/Makefile knows anything
> about specific generated headers or not.  I think all we need to do
> is consider that the *_d.h files ought to be built as another consequence
> of invoking the generated-headers target.
>
> BTW, there's already a submake-generated-headers target in
> Makefile.global, which you should use in preference to rolling your own.

I've attached version 9, whose biggest change is to address the above
points of review. I pushed all of the catalog header build logic into
catalog Makefile to avoid creating a separate symbol file. This
involved putting the distprep logic there as well. Enough of the
structure changed that one or two names didn't make sense anymore, so
I changed them.

As suggested, the conversion script is now part of the patchset and
not committed to the repo. To run the conversion, save everything to a
directory and update the dir vars at the top of
apply-bootstrap-data-patches.sh accordingly.

A couple things to note that I didn't do:
-With all the new generated headers, the message "Writing ..." is now
quite verbose. It might be worth changing that.
-I'm not sure if I need to change anything involving "make install".
-I haven't tested the MSVC changes.
-I didn't change any clients to actually use the new headers directly.
That might be too ambitious for this cycle anyway.

While this goes through review, I'll get a head start rebasing the
human readable OIDs and data compaction patches.

-John Naylor