Re: WIP: a way forward on bootstrap data

John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>

From: John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-03-03T11:43:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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I wrote:

> I'll submit a
> preliminary patch soon to get some of those items out of the way.

I've attached a patch that takes care of these cleanups so they don't
clutter the patch set.

-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