Re: designated initializers

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Yura Sokolov <y(dot)sokolov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: designated initializers
Date: 2022-08-10 16:56:29
Message-ID: 20220810165629.nz22lifj4as3g7ut@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2022-08-10 16:03:00 +0200, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> (Coming from https://postgr.es/m/20220809193616.5uucf33piwdxn452@alvherre.pgsql )
>
> 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.

+1 I've fought with this one when fixing a conflict when rebasing a patch...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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