designated initializers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject designated initializers
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Msg-id 20220810140300.ixhbmm4svo5yypv6@alvherre.pgsql
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Responses Re: designated initializers
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On 2022-Aug-09, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> On 2022-Aug-09, Andres Freund wrote:
> 
> > Mildly wondering whether we ought to use designated initializers instead,
> > given we're whacking it around already. Too easy to get the order wrong when
> > adding new members, and we might want to have optional callbacks too.
> 
> Strong +1.  It makes code much easier to navigate (see XmlTableRoutine
> and compare with heapam_methods, for example).

For example, I propose the attached.

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