From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
---|---|
To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgindent weirdnessf |
Date: | 2011-04-20 17:59:53 |
Message-ID: | 201104201759.p3KHxrw05220@momjian.us |
Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
Thread: | |
Lists: | pgsql-hackers |
Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> > You can contribute to the list by running a buildfarm animal on your machine
> > and running its find_typedefs occasionally. This is not just about me. I
> > have asked on numerous occasions for other people to contribute, and the
> > response has been deafening silence. The ?reason we got to this place is
> > that people complained that your list was insufficiently complete, so I
> > added a facility for buildfarm animals to generate their own lists, so we
> > could get wider platform coverage. So my response to anyone who says "well,
> > it works on my box" is "then why isn't your box doing it for the buildfarm?"
>
> This is all well and good up to a point, but if Bruce's ancient BSDi
> machine is the only one that can properly find these symbols, then we
> are courting disaster by relying on it, even if he does run a
> buildfarm animal there. I can't help thinking there must be some
> other explanation for this change.
Uh, just a reality check, but our "courting disaster" means we will have
an extra space after some asterisks in the source code. ;-)
I do, agree, though, it would be nice to find out what changed that
caused this.
--
Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +
From | Date | Subject | |
---|---|---|---|
Next Message | David Fetter | 2011-04-20 18:10:17 | Re: pgbench \for or similar loop |
Previous Message | Peter Eisentraut | 2011-04-20 17:56:46 | Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers |