On 2015-12-11 18:12:16 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think what Mark is proposing is to do the lookups while preparing the
> .bki file, which would eliminate the circularity ... at the cost of having
> to, essentially, reimplement regprocedure_in and friends in Perl.
FWIW, I did that, when this came up last. Rather interesting, because it
leads to rather noticeable speedups - currently initdb spents a
significant amount of its time doing reproc lookups. Especially
interesting because at that stage we're largely not using indexes yet, IIRC.
Andres
