Re: Use C99 designated initializers for some structs

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-09-07T09:45:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 30/08/2018 22:14, Andres Freund wrote:
> I think we should have as rules:
> 
> 1) Members should be defined in the same order as in the struct, that's
>    the requirement C++ standard is going to impose. Think it's also
>    reasonable stylistically.
> 2) It's OK to omit setting members if zero-initialization obviously is
>    correct.

It seems like most people were OK with that, so I committed the patch.
This is something that we'll likely gain more experience with over time.

> We probably should also check how well pgindent copes, and whether that
> dictates some formatting choices.

The patch I submitted was run through pgindent.  I did not experience
any problem, and it didn't reformat anything about what I had originally
typed in (except one comment I think).

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