Re: Do we need use more meaningful variables to replace 0 in catalog head files?

Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I don't think we need "named constants", especially not
>> manually-maintained ones. The thing that would help in pg_proc.h is for
>> numeric type OIDs to be replaced by type names. We talked awhile back
>> about introducing some sort of preprocessing step that would allow doing
>> that --- ie, it would look into some precursor file for pg_type.h and
>> extract the appropriate OID automatically. I'm too tired to go find the
>> thread right now, but it was mostly about building the long-DATA-lines
>> representation from something easier to edit.

> You mean that I guess:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4d191a530911041228v621286a7q6a98d9ab8a2ed734@mail.gmail.com

Hmm, that's from 2009. I thought I remembered something much more recent,
like last year or so.

regards, tom lane