On 3/4/15 9:07 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
* Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
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?
On that angle, I'm dubious that a format that allows omission of fields is
going to be easy for editing scripts to modify, no matter what the layout
convention is. I've found it relatively easy to write sed or even Emacs
macros to add new column values to old-school pg_proc.h ... but in this
brave new world, I'm going to be really hoping that the column default
works for 99.9% of pg_proc entries when we add a new pg_proc column,
because slipping a value into a desired position is gonna be hard for
a script when you don't know whether the adjacent existing fields are
present or not.
I wonder if we should have a tool in our repository to help people
edit the file. So instead of going in there yourself and changing
things by hand, or writing your own script, you can do:
updatepgproc.pl --oid 5678 provolatile=v
or
updatepgpproc.pl --name='.*xact.*' prowhatever=someval
Regardless of what format we end up with, that seems like it would
make things easier.
Alright, I'll bite on this- we have this really neat tool for editing
data in bulk, or individual values, or pulling out data to look at based
on particular values or even functions... It's called PostgreSQL.
What if we had an easy way to export an existing table into whatever
format we decide to use for initdb to use? For that matter, what if
that file was simple to import into PG?
What about having a way to load all the catalog tables from their git
repo files into a "pg_dev" schema? Maybe even include a make target or
initdb option which does that? (the point here being to provide a way
to modify the tables and compare the results to the existing tables
without breaking the instance one is using for this)
I have to admit that I've never tried to do that with the existing
format, but seems like an interesting idea to consider. I further
wonder if it'd be possible to generate the table structures too..
Semi-related... if we put some special handling in some places for
bootstrap mode, couldn't most catalog objects be created using SQL, once
we got pg_class, pg_attributes and pg_type created? That would
theoretically allow us to drive much more of initdb with plain SQL
(possibly created via pg_dump).
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