Re: [HACKERS] bootstrap tables

2001-01-08 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:50:03AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Ross J. Reedstrom writes: Do you really need the thing to be a bootstrap table, and not a plain system table? Yup, 'cause it's going to store the schema info, including the system schema. I forsee it needing to be

[HACKERS] bootstrap tables

2001-01-05 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
Hey hackers - I'm having a bit of trouble with creating a new bootstrap system table. That is, one that is created during initdb via 'create bootstrap' in the PKI file. I realize that for this sort of system table, I need to add tuples via bootstrap DATA statements to pg_class.h,

Re: [HACKERS] bootstrap tables

2001-01-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Ross J. Reedstrom" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One difference between my new table and the other system tables, perhaps, is that there is no code using the table: perhaps something with how mdopen will substitute for mdcreate, and create files while under bootstrapmode? I suspect that's got

Re: [HACKERS] bootstrap tables

2001-01-05 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 06:25:38PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Still, it sure looks like 'create bootstrap' should cause mdcreate() to be called, so I'm not sure why you'd see the file not get created at all. Have you tried tracing through it with a debugger? Do you really need the thing to

Re: [HACKERS] bootstrap tables

2001-01-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Ross J. Reedstrom writes: Do you really need the thing to be a bootstrap table, and not a plain system table? Yup, 'cause it's going to store the schema info, including the system schema. I forsee it needing to be accessed immediately during bootstrap. Does "schema info" mean SQL schemas