<div dir='auto'>Thanks for your attention! That sentence made me believe the style guide was outdated, but then I found fairly recent posts referring to it and got confused.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 26, 2019 10:53, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">On 2019-09-25 00:13, Tom Lane wrote: <br>
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes: <br>
>> PostgreSQL 12 requires C99, so those guidelines should probably be <br>
>> rephrased from "because old compilers don't accept it" to "because we <br>
>> like it that way". <br>
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> Yeah, or more formally "to encourage consistent coding style". <br>
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