Re: branching for 9.2devel - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: branching for 9.2devel
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Msg-id 23175.1303775322@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: branching for 9.2devel  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: branching for 9.2devel  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Re: branching for 9.2devel  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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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


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