Chris Browne wrote: > >> Would it be a terrible idea to... > >> > >> - Draw the indent code from NetBSD into src/tools/pgindent > >> - Build it _in place_ inside the code tree (e.g. - don't assume > >> it will get installed in /usr/local/bin) > >> - Thus have the ability to run it in place? > > > > Yes, but it bloats our code and people still need to generate the > > typedefs and follow the instructions. The other problem is if they run > > it on a file they have modified, it is going to adjust places they > > didn't touch, thereby making the patch harder to review. > > The bloat is 154K, on a project with something around 260MB of code. > I don't think this is a particlarly material degree of bloat.
You mean 37kb vs 13MB, right? That is the tarball sizes I see. > If we ran pgindent really frequently, there would admittedly be the > difference that there would be a lot of little cases of > changes-from-pgindent being committed along the way, but [1] might it > not be cheaper to accept that cost, with the concomittant benefit that > you could tell patchers "Hey, run pgindent before submitting that > patch, and that'll clean up a number of of the issues." Yes, it > doesn't address code changes like typedef generation, but that never > was an argument against running pgindent... That is much a more radical use of pgindent than it has had in the past but it is certainly possible. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers