Re: GenBKI emits useless open;close for catalogs without rows

On Fri, 1 Sept 2023 at 19:43, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 2023-Sep-01, Matthias van de Meent wrote:
>
> > A potential addition to the patch would to stop manually closing
> > relations: initdb and check-world succeed without manual 'close'
> > operations because the 'open' command auto-closes the previous open
> > relation (in boot_openrel). Testing also suggests that the last opened
> > relation apparently doesn't need closing - check-world succeeds
> > without issues (incl. with TAP enabled). That is therefore implemented
> > in attached patch 2 - it removes the 'close' syntax in its entirety.
>
> Hmm, what happens with the last relation in the bootstrap process? Is
> closerel() called via some other path for that one?

There is a final cleanup() call that closes the last open boot_reldesc
relation (if any) at the end of BootstrapModeMain, after boot_yyparse
has completed and its changes have been committed.

- Matthias