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