On 2016-11-13 11:23:09 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2016-11-13 00:20:22 -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> Then we're not very far away from just using CREATE FUNCTION SQL commands.
>
> > Well, those do a lot of syscache lookups, which in turn do lookups for
> > functions...
>
> We can't use CREATE FUNCTION as the representation in the .bki file,
> because of the circularities involved (you can't fill pg_proc before
> pg_type nor vice versa).  But I think Peter was suggesting that the
> input to the bki-generator script could look like CREATE commands.
> That's true, but I fear it would greatly increase the complexity
> of the script for not much benefit.

It'd also be very pg_proc specific, which isn't where I think this
should go..

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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