[postgis-devel] Re: sql files proliferation

[strk]

pramsey wrote:
> I wonder if we can use cpp and simple #ifdef stuff to do the 
> preprocessing. Would be nice.
> P.

I made some use of cpp with languages other then C.
The main problem is that cpp thinks #-lines are overlooked byt
the compilers. GNU cpp version accepts -P to omit linemarkers

       -P  Inhibit generation of linemarkers in the output from
           the preprocessor.  This might be useful when running
           the preprocessor on something that is not C code, and
           will be sent to a program which might be confused by
           the linemarkers.

... but that could not be always the case.

Can people try that (or similar) to solve the linemark problem ?

--strk;

> strk wrote:
> 
> > The postgis*sql* files are becoming a major part
> > of the distribution (as number of files).
> > What about having a single sql for each postgres version ?
> > Or - better - use some preprocessing to keep in common
> > things that are common and spilt things that need to be
> > splitted ?
> > 
> > I need to move geometry_column creation out of _common_
> > into each of version-specific files because for PG75 there
> > is no need of attrelid oid, varattnum int and stats histogram2d;
> > this already happended for schema support changes (addGeometryColumn,
> > dropGeoemtryColumn, fix_geometry_columns) and is getting boring.
> > 
> > --strk;
> 
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