Re: [PATCH] postgresql.conf.sample comment alignment.

Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> This patch tweaks a some tabbing and replaces some spaces with tabs to
> improve slightly the comment alignment in file
> 'postgresql.conf.sample'

Hmm ... the parts you want to change generally look OK to me.
I wonder if you are looking at it with tab stops set to 4 spaces
rather than 8 spaces?

While 4 spaces is our convention for C code, postgresql.conf
is going to be edited by end users who almost certainly have their
editors set up for 8 spaces, so it's going to look funny to them
if the comments are aligned on the assumption of 4 spaces.

One idea for avoiding confusion is to legislate that we won't
use tabs at all in this file (which we could enforce via
.gitattributes, I think). But that might just be making things
equally inconvenient for everybody.

regards, tom lane