Re: On /*----- comments

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> writes:
> Except for the translator comments, I think those others forgot about
> the end-guards by accident. But they look just as nice to me. It's
> probably not worth the code churn to remove them from existing comments,
> but how about we stop requiring them in new code, and update the
> pgindent README accordingly?

Seems reasonable; the trailing dashes eat a line without adding much.

Should we also provide specific guidance about how many leading dashes
to use for this? I vaguely recall that pgindent might only need one,
but I think using somewhere around 5 to 10 looks better.

regards, tom lane