Re: Bootstrap DATA is a pita

Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Dec 11, 2015, at 1:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> That's an interesting proposal. It would mean that the catalog files
>> stay at more or less their current semantic level (direct representations
>> of bootstrap catalog contents), but it does sound like a more attractive
>> way to perform complex edits than writing Emacs macros ;-).

> I would be happy to work on this, if there is much chance of the community
> accepting a patch. Do you think replacing the numeric Oids for functions,
> operators, opclasses and such in the source files with their names would
> be ok, with the SQL converting those to Oids in the output?

Huh? Those files are the definition of that mapping, no? Isn't what
you're proposing circular?

regards, tom lane