Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > Most of these files don't have that many entries, and they're not > modified that often. The elephant in the room is pg_proc.h, which is > huge, frequently-modified, and hard to decipher. But I think that's > going to need more surgery than just introducing named constants - > which would also have the downside of making the already-long lines > even longer.
I don't think we need "named constants", especially not manually-maintained ones. The thing that would help in pg_proc.h is for numeric type OIDs to be replaced by type names. We talked awhile back about introducing some sort of preprocessing step that would allow doing that --- ie, it would look into some precursor file for pg_type.h and extract the appropriate OID automatically. I'm too tired to go find the thread right now, but it was mostly about building the long-DATA-lines representation from something easier to edit. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers