On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 at 17:20, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org> wrote:
>
> Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > But, as text literal concatenations don't seem to get constant folded
> > before storing them in the rules table, this rewrite of the views
> > would result in long lines in the system_views.sql file, or we'd have
> > to deal with the additional overhead of the append operator and cast
> > nodes.
>
> There is no need to use the concatenation operator to split array
> constants across multiple lines. Newlines are fine either inside the
> string (between array elements), or between two string string literals
> (which become one string constant at parse time).
Ah, neat, that saves some long lines in the system_views file. I had
already tried the "auto-concatenate two consecutive string literals",
but that try failed in initdb, so now I'm not sure what happened
there.
Thanks!
-Matthias
