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The <code class="literal">open</code> command cannot be used until the tables it uses
exist and have entries for the table that is to be opened.
(These minimum tables are <code class="structname">pg_class</code>,
<code class="structname">pg_attribute</code>, <code class="structname">pg_proc</code>, and
<code class="structname">pg_type</code>.) To allow those tables themselves to be filled,
<code class="literal">create</code> with the <code class="literal">bootstrap</code> option implicitly opens
the created table for data insertion.
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Also, the <code class="literal">declare index</code> and <code class="literal">declare toast</code>
commands cannot be used until the system catalogs they need have been
created and filled in.
</p><p>
Thus, the structure of the <code class="filename">postgres.bki</code> file has to
be:
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<code class="literal">create bootstrap</code> one of the critical tables
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
<code class="literal">insert</code> data describing at least the critical tables
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
<code class="literal">close</code>
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Repeat for the other critical tables.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
<code class="literal">create</code> (without <code class="literal">bootstrap</code>) a noncritical table
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
<code class="literal">open</code>
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
<code class="literal">insert</code> desired data
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
<code class="literal">close</code>
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Repeat for the other noncritical tables.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Define indexes and toast tables.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
<code class="literal">build indices</code>
</p></li></ol></div><p>
</p><p>
There are doubtless other, undocumented ordering dependencies.
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