Re: Bootstrap DATA is a pita

Andres Freund  writes:
> On 2015-12-11 19:26:38 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I believe it's soluble, but it's going to take something more like
>> loading up all the data at once and then doing lookups as we write
>> out the .bki entries for each catalog.  Fortunately, the volume of
>> bootstrap data is small enough that that won't be a problem on any
>> machine capable of running modern Postgres ...

> I think that's exactly the right approach. Just building a few perl
> hashes worked well enough, in my prototype of that.

Right.  I would draw Mark's attention to src/backend/catalog/Catalog.pm
and the things that use that.  Presumably all that would have be
rewritten, but the existing code would be a useful starting point
perhaps.
		regards, tom lane