Re: branching for 9.2devel

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-04-25T23:48:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 04/25/2011 07:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  writes:
>>> and filter the typedefs list so that we only use the ones
>>> that appear in each file with that file, instead of passing the whole
>>> list to each file.

>> Not sure I gather the value of doing that.

> Well, that way you'll have a handful of -Ttypdef parameters for each 
> invocation of indent instead of a gazillion of them. No more command 
> line length issues.

Well, -Ttypedef is wrong on its face.  Right would be a switch
specifying the name of the file to read the typedef list from.
Then you don't need massive script-level infrastructure to try
to spoonfeed that data to the program doing the work.

			regards, tom lane