On 03/07/2015 05:46 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-03-07 16:43:15 -0600, Jim Nasby wrote:
>> Semi-related... if we put some special handling in some places for bootstrap
>> mode, couldn't most catalog objects be created using SQL, once we got
>> pg_class, pg_attributes and pg_type created? That would theoretically allow
>> us to drive much more of initdb with plain SQL (possibly created via
>> pg_dump).
> Several people have now made that suggestion, but I *seriously* doubt
> that we actually want to go there. The overhead of executing SQL
> commands in comparison to the bki stuff is really rather
> noticeable. Doing the majority of the large number of insertions via SQL
> will make initdb noticeably slower. And it's already annoyingly
> slow. Besides make install it's probably the thing I wait most for
> during development.
My reaction exactly. We should not make users pay a price for
developers' convenience.
>
> That's besides the fact that SQL commands aren't actually that
> comfortably editable in bulk.
Indeed.
cheers
andrew