On 01.09.23 14:37, Tom Lane wrote:
> Krishnakumar R <kksrcv001@gmail.com> writes:
>> This patch moves the pre-processing for tokens in the bki file from
>> initdb to bootstrap. With these changes the bki file will only be
>> opened once in bootstrap and parsing will be done by the bootstrap
>> parser.
>
> You haven't provided any iota of evidence why this would be an
> improvement.
I had played with similar ideas in the past, because it would shave some
time of initdb, which would accumulate noticeably over a full test run.
But now with the initdb caching mechanism, I wonder whether this is
still needed.