Add a guc_check_handler to the EXPLAIN extension mechanism.

Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>

Commit: 0442f1c9eff673849664d8ef71c202ad076e72e9
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-04-06T16:31:47Z
Add a guc_check_handler to the EXPLAIN extension mechanism.

It would be useful to be able to tell auto_explain to set a custom
EXPLAIN option, but it would be bad if it tried to do so and the
option name or value wasn't valid, because then every query would fail
with a complaint about the EXPLAIN option. So add a guc_check_handler
that auto_explain will be able to use to only try to set option
name/value/type combinations that have been determined to be legal,
and to emit useful messages about ones that aren't.

Reviewed-by: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com>
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmob-0W8306mvrJX5Urtqt1AAasu8pi4yLrZ1XfwZU-Uj1w@mail.gmail.com

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