With the new dependency system we have the entire system catalog content
pinned down and unchangeable. This is a tiny dent in the nice extensible
nature of the system.
Would it be feasible to identify the non-essential parts of the built-in
objects (say, inet type, numeric type, associated functions, etc.) and
declare those with regular SQL commands in initdb? In the end, the system
catalog contents in include/catalog/ would only contain the "bootstrap"
content. For example, the pg_proc content could be made more manageable
that way.
Not sure if this is worth considering for this release, but it might be a
medium-term project.
Comments?
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net