Re: pgsql: Properly indent postgresql.conf comments to align

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:23:56PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Properly indent postgresql.conf comments to align
>
> I think "properly" here is very dependent on what you believe the
> tab width is. While most of us have our editors set up for 4-space
> tabs in C files, I don't think all contributors do so for text files
> (I don't, for one). And the odds that the average user will be set up
> to edit postgresql.conf with 4-space tabs are nil.
>
> I suggest that the best way out of this might be to detab
> postgresql.conf.sample entirely, and ditto for our other sample
> config files. We could probably set up .gitattributes to make
> git complain if anyone re-introduces tabs into those files.

Uh, the postgresql.conf file is full of tabs, and they all assume
8-space tabs. I was just making those few lines consistent.

Not sure we want to remove all tabs though.

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