Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I think mostly what you are doing here is causing code drift from the
> >> upstream "zic" code. I don't think that's a very good idea, since we
> >> do need to be able to track and apply bug fixes from them from time
> >> to time ...
>
> > Why run pgindent on the timezone code, then? That seems guaranteed to
> > cause a lot more merge headaches...
>
> Well, it's certainly hopeless to expect "patch" to fix it :-(. But the
> further the code drifts the harder it gets to compare manually.
>
> This isn't an academic concern; I went through it once already, and I
> expect we'll want to do it again every release cycle when we sync the
> zic database with upstream.
I think the idea is that we will pgindent the new release of the
timezone code and then diff that against our current CVS.
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