Re: A small rant about coding style for backend functions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: A small rant about coding style for backend functions
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Msg-id 20071108111955.GA2938@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: A small rant about coding style for backend functions  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Brendan Jurd" <direvus@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > If Postgres did have something akin to the Python C style guide, that
> > would be excellent.  But all we've got is a standard tabstop of four
> > spaces and the five words "Our standard format BSD style".  Don't you
> > think that comes across as pretty weak for a project of this size and
> > significance?
> 
> So you're saying we should adopt a code standard because it looks good?

We already _have_ a code standard.  We're just not making it explicit.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                          Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/
"Los dioses no protegen a los insensatos.  Éstos reciben protección de
otros insensatos mejor dotados" (Luis Wu, Mundo Anillo)


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