Re: A small rant about coding style for backend functions

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: A small rant about coding style for backend functions
Date: 2007-11-08 11:19:55
Message-ID: 20071108111955.GA2938@alvh.no-ip.org
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Brendan Jurd" <direvus(at)gmail(dot)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.

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Alvaro Herrera Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/
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otros insensatos mejor dotados" (Luis Wu, Mundo Anillo)

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