Re: pgindent run?

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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-03-22T05:13:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > and most times, those have to be merged into the source tree due to
> > extensive changes anyway ... maybe we should just get rid of the use of
> > pgindent altogether?
> 
> I think pgindent is a good thing; the style of different parts of the
> code would vary too much without it.  I'm only unhappy about the risk
> issues of running it at this late stage of the release cycle.

This is the usualdiscussion.  Some like it, some don't like the risk,
some don't like the timing.  I don't think we ever came up with a better
time than before RC, though I think we could do it a little earlier in
beta if people were not holding patches during that period.  It is the
beta patching folks that we have the most control over.

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