Re: autogenerating headers & bki stuff

Tom Lane escribió:

> I experimented with that a little bit and found it doesn't seem to be
> tremendously easy. A non-bootstrap-mode backend will PANIC immediately
> on startup if it doesn't find the critical system indexes, so the second
> step has issues. Also, there is no provision for resuming bootstrap
> mode in an already-existing database, so the third step doesn't work
> either.

FWIW we hacked up a sort-of-bootstrap mode in Mammoth Replicator to be
able to create our own catalogs and stuff. It's not particularly
hard nor large:

bootstrap.c | 31 ++++++!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 25 modifications(!)

(This is BSD code so feel free to use it if you find it useful)

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