Re: Do we need use more meaningful variables to replace 0 in catalog head files? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Amit Langote
Subject Re: Do we need use more meaningful variables to replace 0 in catalog head files?
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Msg-id CA+HiwqFWYPSvdO_HP9n5ufNeoQzbPiaiAJ0kAdLx4Ju3WQi2aA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Do we need use more meaningful variables to replace 0 in catalog head files?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Do we need use more meaningful variables to replace 0 in catalog head files?
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On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 11:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> I don't think we need "named constants", especially not
>>> manually-maintained ones.  The thing that would help in pg_proc.h is for
>>> numeric type OIDs to be replaced by type names.  We talked awhile back
>>> about introducing some sort of preprocessing step that would allow doing
>>> that --- ie, it would look into some precursor file for pg_type.h and
>>> extract the appropriate OID automatically.  I'm too tired to go find the
>>> thread right now, but it was mostly about building the long-DATA-lines
>>> representation from something easier to edit.
>
>> You mean that I guess:
>> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4d191a530911041228v621286a7q6a98d9ab8a2ed734@mail.gmail.com
>
> Hmm, that's from 2009.  I thought I remembered something much more recent,
> like last year or so.

This perhaps:

* Re: Bootstrap DATA is a pita *
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAOjayEfKBL-_Q9m3Jsv6V-mK1q8h%3Dca5Hm0fecXGxZUhPDN9BA%40mail.gmail.com

Thanks,
Amit



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