pgsql: Un-break genbki.pl's error reporting capabilities.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Un-break genbki.pl's error reporting capabilities.
Date: 2024-03-20 22:02:57
Message-ID: E1rn41R-004q9p-J2@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Un-break genbki.pl's error reporting capabilities.

This essentially reverts commit 69eb643b2, which added a fast path
in Catalog::ParseData, but neglected to preserve the behavior of
adding a line_number field in each hash. That makes it impossible
for genbki.pl to provide any localization of error reports, which is
bad enough; but actually the affected error reports failed entirely,
producing useless bleats like "use of undefined value in sprintf".

69eb643b2 claimed to get a 15% speedup, but I'm not sure I believe
that: the time to rebuild the bki files changes by less than 1% for
me. In any case, making debugging of mistakes in .dat files more
difficult would not be justified by even an order of magnitude
speedup here; it's just not that big a chunk of the total build time.

Per report from David Wheeler. Although it's also broken in v16,
I don't think this is worth a back-patch, since we're very unlikely
to touch the v16 catalog data again.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19238.1710953049@sss.pgh.pa.us

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/995e0fbc1c57c9b705c57de456d25c6e448bc5dd

Modified Files
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src/backend/catalog/Catalog.pm | 28 +++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

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