On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 at 17:20, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilm...@ilmari.org> wrote: > > Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postg...@gmail.com> writes: > > > But, as text literal concatenations don't seem to get constant folded > > before storing them in the rules table, this rewrite of the views > > would result in long lines in the system_views.sql file, or we'd have > > to deal with the additional overhead of the append operator and cast > > nodes. > > There is no need to use the concatenation operator to split array > constants across multiple lines. Newlines are fine either inside the > string (between array elements), or between two string string literals > (which become one string constant at parse time).
Ah, neat, that saves some long lines in the system_views file. I had already tried the "auto-concatenate two consecutive string literals", but that try failed in initdb, so now I'm not sure what happened there. Thanks! -Matthias
