Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2015-12-11 19:26:38 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I believe it's soluble, but it's going to take something more like
>> loading up all the data at once and then doing lookups as we write
>> out the .bki entries for each catalog. Fortunately, the volume of
>> bootstrap data is small enough that that won't be a problem on any
>> machine capable of running modern Postgres ...
> I think that's exactly the right approach. Just building a few perl
> hashes worked well enough, in my prototype of that.
Right. I would draw Mark's attention to src/backend/catalog/Catalog.pm
and the things that use that. Presumably all that would have be
rewritten, but the existing code would be a useful starting point
perhaps.
regards, tom lane
