On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 10:03 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Peter Smith <smithpb2...@gmail.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? >
No. I did fall into that 4/8 trap originally, but I definitely used :set tapstop=8 when modifying this file. > 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. > ------ Kind Regards, Peter Smith Fujitsu Australia
