Re: Switch to multi-inserts for pg_depend

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 07:52:42PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Yeah. As I understand, the only reason to have this number is to avoid
> an arbitrarily large number of entries created as a single multi-insert
> WAL record ... but does that really ever happen? I guess if you create
> a table with some really complicated schema you might get, say, a
> hundred pg_depend rows at once. But to fill eight complete pages of
> pg_depend entries sounds astoundingly ridiculous already -- I'd say it's
> just an easy way to spell "infinity" for this. Tweaking one infinity
> value to become some other infinity value sounds useless.
>
> So I agree with what Andres said. Let's have just one such define and
> be done with it.

Okay. Would src/include/catalog/catalog.h be a suited location for
this flag or somebody has a better idea?
--
Michael