Re: make BuiltinTrancheNames less ugly

On Fri Mar 1, 2024 at 8:00 AM CST, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2024-Feb-23, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
> > On 12/02/2024 19:01, Tristan Partin wrote:
> > > On Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 8:09 AM CST, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > > IMO it would be less ugly to have the origin file lwlocknames.txt be
> > > > not a text file but a .h with a macro that can be defined by
> > > > interested parties so that they can extract what they want from the
> > > > file, like PG_CMDTAG or PG_KEYWORD.  Using Perl for this seems dirty...
> > >
> > > I really like this idea, and would definitely be more inclined to see
> > > a solution like this.
> >
> > +1 to that idea from me too. Seems pretty straightforward.
>
> OK, here's a patch that does it.  I have not touched Meson yet.
>
> I'm pretty disappointed of not being able to remove
> generate-lwlocknames.pl (it now generates the .h, no longer the .c
> file), but I can't find a way to do the equivalent #defines in CPP ...
> it'd require invoking the C preprocessor twice.  Maybe an intermediate
> .h file would solve the problem, but I have no idea how would that work
> with Meson.  I guess I'll do it in Make and let somebody suggest a Meson
> way.

I can help you with Meson if you get the Make implementation done.

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Tristan Partin
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