Re: portability of "designated initializers"

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

> > I mean something like this:
> 
> Where/why do you need to do that?

The reloptions patch uses three arrays, one for each type of option
(bool, int, float).  I'm wondering if we could use a single array with
all options, and a union containing the values.  The only problem with
that (AFAICS) is the initialization.

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