Re: remove quoting hacks and simplify bootscanner.l - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: remove quoting hacks and simplify bootscanner.l
Date
Msg-id 26573.1523988083@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to remove quoting hacks and simplify bootscanner.l  (John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>)
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John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com> writes:
> For the bootstrap data conversion, it was desirable for postgres.bki
> to remain unchanged, so some ugly quoting hacks were added to
> genbki.pl to match the quoting conventions in the DATA() lines. At
> this point, it's possible (and worthwhile I think) to remove those,
> and along the way simplify the tokenizing rules in bootscanner.l.

Although we're past feature freeze, this all seems like reasonable
code cleanup, and probably best to include it now rather than waiting
for v12.  Any objections?

            regards, tom lane


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