On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > We currently still have the guideline that code should fit into an 80 > character window. But an increasing amount of the code, and code > submissions, don't adhere to that (e.g. copy.c, which triggered me to > write this email). And I mean outside of accepted "exceptions" like > error messages. And there's less need for such a relatively tight limit > these days. Perhaps we should up the guideline to 90 or 100 chars?
Or maybe we should go the other way and get a little more rigorous about enforcing that limit. I realize 80 has nothing on its side but tradition, but I'm a traditionalist -- and I still do use 80 character windows a lot of the time. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
