Rationalize handling of array type names in bootstrap data.

Formerly, Catalog.pm turned a C array type declaration in the catalog
header files into a SQL type, e.g., 'foo[]'.  Along the way, genbki.pl
turned this into '_foo' for the purpose of type lookups, but wrote 'foo[]'
to postgres.bki.  During bootstrap, bootscanner.l had to have a special
case rule to tokenize this, and then MapArrayTypeName() would turn 'foo[]'
into '_foo' one more time.

This seems unnecessarily complicated, especially since nobody cares that
much about the readability of postgres.bki.  Instead, make Catalog.pm
convert the C declaration into '_foo' to start with, and preserve that
representation of the type name throughout bootstrap data processing.
Then rip out the special-case code in bootscanner.l and bootstrap.c.

This changes postgres.bki to the extent that array fields are now
declared like
  proconfig = _text ,
rather than
  proconfig = text[] ,

No documentation update, since the SGML docs didn't mention any of this
in the first place, and it's all pretty transparent to writers of
catalog header files anyway.

John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGUNao=-Q2-vAN3PYcdF5tnL5JAHwGwzZGuYHtq+Mk_9ng@mail.gmail.com

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c b/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c
index 59cd4b17f32..a148bdc9fd3 100644
--- a/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c
+++ b/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c
@@ -1037,36 +1037,6 @@ AllocateAttribute(void)
 }
 
 /*
- *		MapArrayTypeName
- *
- * Given a type name, produce the corresponding array type name by prepending
- * '_' and truncating as needed to fit in NAMEDATALEN-1 bytes.  This is only
- * used in bootstrap mode, so we can get away with assuming that the input is
- * ASCII and we don't need multibyte-aware truncation.
- *
- * The given string normally ends with '[]' or '[digits]'; we discard that.
- *
- * The result is a palloc'd string.
- */
-char *
-MapArrayTypeName(const char *s)
-{
-	int			i,
-				j;
-	char		newStr[NAMEDATALEN];
-
-	newStr[0] = '_';
-	j = 1;
-	for (i = 0; i < NAMEDATALEN - 2 && s[i] != '['; i++, j++)
-		newStr[j] = s[i];
-
-	newStr[j] = '\0';
-
-	return pstrdup(newStr);
-}
-
-
-/*
  *	index_register() -- record an index that has been set up for building
  *						later.
  *