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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Smith <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] postgresql.conf.sample comment alignment.
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 12:58:04 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 2022-Aug-01, Tom Lane wrote:

> One idea for avoiding confusion is to legislate that we won't
> use tabs at all in this file (which we could enforce via
> .gitattributes, I think).

+1.

> But that might just be making things equally inconvenient for
> everybody.

In this situation, the only disadvantaged users are those using a
non-fixed-width font in their editor, but those are lost souls already.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera               48°01'N 7°57'E  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"Having your biases confirmed independently is how scientific progress is
made, and hence made our great society what it is today" (Mary Gardiner)

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