Re: bootstrap tables

From: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bootstrap tables
Date: 2001-01-06 00:48:10
Message-ID: 20010105184809.A20639@rice.edu
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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 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.

I was fighting with the debugger last night, and decided "I should ask,
just to be sure I'm not missing something obvious..." I'll keep on
that way, then.

Ross

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