Re: How to get SE-PostgreSQL acceptable

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to get SE-PostgreSQL acceptable
Date: 2009-02-09 17:44:24
Message-ID: 20090209174424.GE2870@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane escribió:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > KaiGai Kohei escribi:
> >> One melancholic thing is adding a member into pg_proc.
> >> It defines more than 2000 of entries which I have to modify correctly. :(
> >> Is there any script to help it?
>
> > Try a search for "coccinelle", "sdiff", or was it "spatch"? It got
> > featured on http://LWN.net/ not many weeks ago.

Here it is:
http://lwn.net/Articles/315686/

> FWIW, every single time I've had to add a column to pg_proc (and I've
> done it several times now), an Emacs macro got the job done with a few
> minutes' thought. I'm sure sed would work as well. The contents of
> those DATA lines are really pretty stylized.

I've had to do it only once, but yes, I did it with a simple s// command
in Vim.

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