Re: generic reloptions improvement

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:

> > I'm intending to have a new routine which would reserve a value at
> > runtime.  This value would be later be passed by the AM to create new
> > options on the table.
> 
> What do you mean by "at runtime"?  Surely the value would have to remain
> stable across database restarts, since it's going to relate to stuff
> that is in catalog entries.

No, there's no need for the value to be stable across restart; what's
stored in catalogs is the option name, which is linked to the kind
number only in the parser table.

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