Re: [HACKERS] removal of braces

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-06-15T20:55:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> I have written a script to remove braces around single statements, if
> the statement is only one line in length.
> 
> The macro fixup context diff was 1,200 lines, and this diff is 12k
> lines.
> 
> Hope no one is sitting on patches.

They had things like:

	if (test != 0)
		macro;

while the macro was:

#define macro() \
	stmt1; \
	stmt2; \
	stmt3;

Of course, only the stmt1 is conditional.  The rest are always executed.
I am sure there were some bugs fixed by this cleanup.

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