Re: Minor rework of ALTER TABLE SET RelOptions code

On 2025-Mar-07, Nikolay Shaplov wrote:

> Patch description is following:
> 
> 1. `isnull` variable is actually needed in a very narrow scope, so              
> it is better to keep it in that scope, not keeping it in mind in while          
> dealing with the rest of the code.                                              
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> 2. Toast table RelOptions are never altered directly with ALTER command.        
> One should do ATLER to a heap relation and use toast. reloption namespace       
> to address toast's reloption. If you get `ATExecSetRelOptions` called with      
> `RELKIND_TOASTVALUE` relation in the args, something is really wrong. We        
> should throw asserts, errors and whistle as loud as we can.

These are two separate things, I would have suggested to post them as
two separate patches.  And the second one lacked tests, so I added some.
I have pushed both now, thanks.

I can't unfortunately promise to review the larger reloption refactoring
patch for 18.

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