Re: Allow table AMs to define their own reloptions

On 2026-09-07 Mo 8:41 AM, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
>> Attached is v7. Changes since v6:
>>
>> [...]
> That's an important feature, thanks for driving it. We wanted
> something like this in the recent commit 0e944fe3 but ended up using a
> GUC.
>
> There is one important design difference however. Your patch allows
> given TAMs to have their own reloptions. In 0e944fe3 the task was
> different. An extension that doesn't implement a TableAM should be
> able to extend `CREATE TABLE foo WITH (...)` with its own options
> independent of the underlying TAM. The way these options are
> interpreted depends on the extension, not the underlying TAM.
>
> If we could separate reloptions extension from TAM implementation that
> would be much more flexible. Do you think it's possible?

I kind of feel like that's a separate project, and I'm not keen to hold
this one up for scope creep.

cheers

andrew

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