Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document struct/union problem with pgindent.

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > + # Structure/union pointers in function prototypes and definitions have an extra
> > + # space after the asterisk:
> > + #
> > + #    void x(struct xxc * a);
> 
> > I know we should not be driven by our tools, but is there a case for a 
> > coding standard that requires use of a typedef name here?
> 
> I don't think so.  Shall we artificially create a typedef for standard
> objects like "struct stat" in order to follow such a coding rule?  I
> think that's just a recipe for confusion.
> 
> In any case, a big fraction of the places that have this issue are code
> that we've imported from elsewhere (the regex engine, zic) and changing
> to typedefs would mean even more drift from upstream and hence
> difficulty in following their patches.
> 
> It's just a bug in pgindent that we should try to fix sometime.

I would hope switching to GNU indent would fix this, but might bring new
bugs.

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