Re: [HACKERS] Minor bugs and a formatting gripe - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Minor bugs and a formatting gripe
Date
Msg-id 199809040502.BAA01732@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Minor bugs and a formatting gripe  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Bruce mentioned that he'd had some trouble applying my last set of
> patches, because he'd already run his reformatting script against
> the files involved.  So, I took the trouble to grovel through a
> "diff --ignore-all-space" comparison of tonight's cvs tree with what
> I had last week.  (I didn't have the energy to go through the *whole*
> tree, but I did look through all of src/interfaces/.)  It was a
> worthwhile exercise because I found a couple of minor errors --- see
> attached patch.
>
> I was mostly pretty happy with what the formatting script had done with
> the code, especially in libpgtcl which had not been anywhere close to
> matching the formatting conventions of the rest of pgsql.  Nice job!
>
> BUT: I am not happy that the script chooses to reflow block comments.
> Line breaks chosen on the basis of how much fits are not a readability
> improvement over line breaks placed where a human author felt they made
> sense.  For example, is this really an improvement in readability?
> (And if it's *not* a clear gain, why are we doing it?)

Thanks for checking on my patch job.  Patches applied.

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