"Gustavo Tonini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, just for documenting the process...
> Adding new postgres catalog in 2 little steps:

> 1)Write catalog header file and save it into "src/include/catalog"
> directory. Hint: copy format from other catalog headers.
> 2)Add your header file name to variable POSTGRES_BKI_SRCS in file
> "src/backend/catalog/Makefile"

As long as we're documenting ...

* Documenting a new catalog in catalogs.sgml is not considered optional.
* Most likely, your catalog needs some indexes, which should be declared
  in catalog/indexing.h.
* Of course, the reason you are defining a new system catalog is that
  the C code is going to know about it.  So there is a whole lot of
  other stuff you probably need to write: object insertion code,
  object deletion code, lookup code (maybe a new syscache or two).
  Traditionally the lowest-level insertion/deletion code goes into
  catalog/pg_yourcatalog.c, while slightly higher-level code such as
  the implementation of new utility commands to manage this new kind
  of object will go elsewhere.

That's before you get to any actual new functionality...

                        regards, tom lane

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