From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Perl scripts: eliminate "Useless interpolation" warnings
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:36:56 -0400
Message-ID: <ZudFaDhhXHg3AAlv@momjian.us> (raw)
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On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 04:33:49PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I understand perfectly what the warning is about.
>
> But the project's perlcritic policy is expressed at src/tools/perlcheck/
> perlcriticrc. It's basically severity 5 plus some additions and one exception.
> We shouldn't be imposing our personal perlcritic policies on the project.
>
> The change isn't bad in itself, but there shouldn't be any expectation that we
> will keep to this policy, as it's not required by project policy.
>
> There is a huge mass of perlcritic issues in our perl code at severity 1 (over
> 13000 by my count). If we're going to clean them up (which I would oppose) we
> should do it in a systematic way. It's hard to see why this one is special.
I guess it is special only because my policy is more strict so I wanted
my new code to match. Should I revert it? Is the very tiny improvement
not worth the churn in the code?
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Subject: Re: pgsql: Perl scripts: eliminate "Useless interpolation" warnings
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