Re: generate syscache info automatically

John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>

From: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>

To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-01-22T00:33:13Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 9:03 PM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>
> The DECLARE_* macros map to actual BKI commands ("declare toast",
> "declare index").  So I wanted to use a different verb to distinguish
> "generate code for this" from those BKI commands.

That makes sense to me.

Commits

Generate syscache info from catalog files
- 9b1a6f50b91d 17.0 landed
Fill in more of ObjectProperty
- 0c60e8ba80e0 17.0 landed
Correct ObjectProperty entry for transforms
- d7ceb41b9b84 17.0 landed
genbki.pl: Factor out boilerplate generation
- f94dec76cc7a 17.0 landed
Restructure DECLARE_INDEX arguments
- 226d0a6b989b 17.0 landed
Update DECLARE_INDEX documentation
- 908f711d2398 15.5 landed
- 4cdcff4d93b2 16.0 landed
- 3c09d115948c 17.0 landed
Replace hardcoded switch in object_exists() with a lookup table.
- fa351d5a0db0 9.2.0 cited