Re: autogenerating headers & bki stuff - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: autogenerating headers & bki stuff
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Msg-id 20090811211838.GF16362@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: autogenerating headers & bki stuff  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut escribió:
> On Tuesday 30 June 2009 06:59:51 Robert Haas wrote:
> > The attached patch merges all of the logic currently in genbki.sh and
> > Gen_fmgrtab.{sh,pl} into a single script called gen_catalog.pl
> 
> I can't really convince myself to like this change.  I think there is some 
> merit that these scripts are separate.  I'm not sure what the combined script 
> buys us except that it is a lot bigger and does everything at once instead of 
> in two or three steps.

Maybe we can move forward in little steps.  For example it would be
excellent to have the schemapg.h file autogenerated instead of having to
edit two copies of those definitions.

I'm not sure that it buys us a lot to have all those things in a single
script.  Why not have a script to generate schemapg.h, another one to
generate the bki stuff, another one to generate the fmgrtab header?
They don't seem to share a lot of code anyway (and even if they do,
surely we can add a .pm module containing common code).

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