Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers
Date: 2011-04-18 23:25:33
Message-ID: 18543.1303169133@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Excerpts from Andrew Dunstan's message of lun abr 18 19:20:30 -0300 2011:
>> On 04/17/2011 11:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> ... but maybe it just needs
>>> a more determined effort and/or more recent versions of GNU indent.

>> If you're aware of any changes in GNU indent that would overcome the
>> previous issues, then by all means spend the time on it. If not, it
>> seems a bit like the definition of insanity ("repeating an experiment
>> with the expectation of a different result").

> The source of GNU indent itself is 3x what it was when the experiment
> was last reported. (I checked this about a year ago with an eye on
> "repeating the experiment" but then I failed to actually do it.) It
> seems fair to say that, yes, it has changed a bit in the meantime.

Also, my recollection of the previous go-round is that we gave up rather
quickly. Maybe by now there is somebody willing to put more than
minimal effort into getting the options just so.

regards, tom lane

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