| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Bootstrap DATA is a pita |
| Date: | 2015-03-04 14:06:05 |
| Message-ID: | 54F7114D.3020400@gmx.net |
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On 3/3/15 9:49 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Yeah. One thought though is that I don't think we need the "data" layer
>> in your proposal; that is, I'd flatten the representation to something
>> more like
>>
>> {
>> oid => 2249,
>> oiddefine => 'CSTRINGOID',
>> typname => 'cstring',
>> typlen => -2,
>> typbyval => 1,
>> ...
>> }
>
> Even this promises to vastly increase the number of lines in the file,
I think lines are cheap. Columns are much harder to deal with.
> and make it harder to compare entries by grepping out some common
> substring.
Could you give an example of the sort of thing you wish to do?
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