Re: branching for 9.2devel

On Apr 25, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> On 04/25/2011 03:30 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> *Ouch*. Really? It's hard to believe that anyone would consider it
>>> remotely usable for more than toy-sized projects, if you have to list
>>> all the typedef names on the command line.
>
>> Looks like BSD does the same. It's just that we hide it in pgindent:
>
> Oh wow, I never noticed that. That's going to be a severe problem for
> the "run it anywhere" goal. The typedefs list is already close to 32K,
> and is not going anywhere but up. There are already platforms on which
> a shell command line that long will fail, and I think once we break past
> 32K we might find it failing on even pretty popular ones.

I take it the behavior of the `indent` program is sufficiently complex that it couldn't be modeled sufficiently easily by a smart enough perl script?

Regards,

David
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