Re: schemapg.h

Tom Lane escribió:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > I think having schemapg.h be autogenerated is a good idea, so I stripped
> > that from Robert Haas' patch. Here's the result. This should be
> > relatively uncontroversial since, well, the controversial stuff has been
> > stripped. The one problem is that it introduces more complex code than
> > it removes dull declarations.
>
> Indeed, and it fails to get rid of all the dull declarations :-(.

Right. I don't think we're going to move forward if we only accept
giant steps at a time, and we simultaneously reject patches that are too
intrusive. What this says is that we're going to need to accept that a
first change to the file generation system is going to be a dwarf step
forward; otherwise we're going to stay right where we arej with which
I'm not terribly happy.

> I thought the idea was to generate all this stuff directly from the C
> struct declarations (plus some hardwired knowledge about the
> datatypes, comparable to what is in TypInfo in bootstrap.c already).
> Removing four out of six Schema_pg_xxx macros while leaving the
> equivalent DATA declarations behind isn't my idea of a major step
> forward.

Hmm, perhaps that's workable. I'll have a look around.

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