On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:53:02AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > If this only affects a handful of places, then sure, let's go ahead
> > and fix it. But if it's going to create a massive enough diff that
> > we've gotta think about back-patching it, then IMHO it's totally not
> > worth it.
>
> A quick grep search says there are well over 3000 comment lines containing
> '.' followed by a tab. grep isn't smart enough to tell if the tabs expand
> to exactly two spaces, but I bet the vast majority do. So it might not
> be quite as bad as the 8.1 wrap-margin change, but it'd be extensive.
I have cleaned up entab.c so I am ready to add a new option that removes
tabs from only comments. Would you like me to create that and provide a
diff at a URL? It would have to be run against all back branches.
If it goes well, it could prove to be a way to incrementally improve
pgindent. If not, I am afraid we are stuck with our current pgindent
output.
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