Re: Arrays of Complex Types

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:18:14PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > I've written up a patch intended to implement this on the
> > non-pg_catalog tables and VIEWs, but while it builds, it doesn't
> > initdb. Enclosed are the patch and the error log.
> > Any hints as to what I might look at?
>
> > creating template1 database in /var/lib/pgsql/pgsql/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/base/1 ... ok
> > initializing pg_authid ... ok
> > initializing dependencies ... ok
> > creating system views ... ok
> > loading system objects' descriptions ... FATAL: cache lookup failed for type 11096
> > child process exited with exit code 1
>
> That step of initdb creates a TEMP table ... maybe your patch doesn't
> work for temp tables? Anyway, you're certainly far enough along there
> that you could fire up the postmaster and reproduce the error in a
> normal debugging environment.

I've done that, and thanks to Andrew of Supernews, I've got a slightly
better patch, albeit one that bombs out at the same spot. In the
patch attached, it appears that TypeCreate is not doing the right
thing in pg_depend, either because I'm not invoking it right or
because it needs more machinery.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
David.
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