Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 01:50:48PM -0400, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:57:41PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > What about something like this in the root of the tree:
> > find . -name \*.pl -o -name \*.pm | xargs perltidy -b -bl -nsfs -naws -l=100 -ole=unix
> >
> > There are files all over the place. The file that would most be
> > affected with one run of this is the ECPG grammar generator.
> >
> > I checked the "-et=4" business (which is basically entab). We're pretty
> > inconsistent about tabs in perl code it seems; some files use tabs
> > others use spaces. Honestly I would just settle on what we use on C
> > files, even if the Perl devs don't recommend it "because of
> > maintainability and portability". I mean if it works well for us for C
> > code, why would it be a problem in Perl code? However, I don't write
> > much of that Perl code myself.
>
> +1 for formatting all our Perl scripts and for including -et=4. Since that
> will rewrite currently-tidy files anyway, this is a good time to audit our
> perltidy settings.

OK, another open question is whether we should do any of these changes
now for 9.2/9.3 or wait for 9.3/9.4?

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