Emmanuel Cecchet <m...@asterdata.com> writes:
> Here you will force every format to use the same set of options

How does this "force" any such thing?

> and if 
> someone introduces a new option, you will have to modify all other 
> formats to make sure they throw an error telling the user that this 
> option is not supported.

Well, if we do it your way then we will instead need a collection of
code to throw errors for combinations like (xml on, csv_header on).
I don't really see any improvement there.

                        regards, tom lane

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