Re: pgindent run?

Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>

From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-03-22T17:36:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> [010322 07:12] wrote:
> > It seems that you guys are dead set on using this pgindent tool,
> > this is cool, we'd probably use some indentation tool on the FreeBSD
> > sources if there was one that met our code style(9) guidelines.
> 
> I would liken running pgindent to having a nice looking store or
> website.  No one is going to go to a website or a store only because it
> looks nice, but having it look nice does keep people coming back.

I'm not saying I don't like pgindent, I'm saying I don't like
pgindent's effect on the CVS history.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.