Re: split rm_name and rm_desc out of rmgr.c

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:

> > The
> > approach in the second patch is to turn these into "extern const RmgrId"
> > instead, and use a second inclusion of rmgrlist.h in rmgr.c that assigns
> > them the values as consts.
>
> ... but I don't especially like that implementation, as it will result
> in nonzero code bloat and runtime cost due to replacing all those
> constants with global-variable references. Couldn't you instead set it
> up as an enum definition?

That seems to work. I would like to have some way of specifying that
the enum members should be of type RmgrId, but I don't think there's any
way to do that.

Patch attached.

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