Re: ArchiveEntry optional arguments refactoring

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2019-Jan-16, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
>> ArchiveEntry((ArchiveArgs){.tablespace = 3,
>> .dumpFn = somefunc,
>> ...});

> Is there real savings to be had by doing this?  What would be the
> arguments to each function?  Off-hand, I'm not liking this idea too
> much.

I'm not either.  What this looks like it will mainly do is create
a back-patching barrier, with little if any readability improvement.

I don't buy the argument that this would move the goalposts in terms
of how much work it is to add a new argument.  You'd still end up
touching every call site.

            regards, tom lane