Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oJC4k-0004V4-EB for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2022 10:58:06 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oJC4i-0008Mp-UV for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2022 10:58:04 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oJC4i-0008Mg-Kg for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2022 10:58:04 +0000 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oJC4g-0008Cx-8n for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2022 10:58:03 +0000 Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B50D95C014D; Wed, 3 Aug 2022 06:58:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 03 Aug 2022 06:58:01 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:cc:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:date:date:feedback-id:feedback-id:from:from :in-reply-to:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:reply-to:sender :subject:subject:to:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; t=1659524281; x=1659610681; bh=g bAwYUgr06o1/CRLmJe4b9A5JH0OEsWmZYSo7LkA5PA=; b=2ShYS31zRKKAO4a2L /ymWwSYkHZF5Pg+wywagHVZ23PQM+ugV+sFew52Ji/tMlxa3LbTJgi/Dk0DOvusZ mLkHN8fyYkhWylyYLHsB0f+SlmgFmwuMKzr+dkHMYQXTxSC2BlibmKH/oPtoNhkb fUWtFxq2+zf1HRDk50RxucvywzwKL19TrXRFmgeFkhDfHxK0+5vnjgaf/hJg7O6l MnFybFBUtw062fSElX6c+PB0ptAO98+BxXG7N1pRQcp1BKPNQjo8BjGf4rT3ZNvm DB7FB9NjQPoy+6sAwdiwFCR3ZVrI/t0iOYgPH+deBBVlySk28gnwUiCuE7MoOxWB /T8vg== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Received: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedvfedrvddvjedgfeegucetufdoteggodetrfdotf fvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuhfgrshhtofgrihhlpdfqfgfvpdfurfetoffkrfgpnffqhgen uceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucesvcftvggtihhpihgvnhhtshculddquddttddmne cujfgurhepfffhvfevuffkgggtugfgjgesthekredttddtjeenucfhrhhomheptehlvhgr rhhoucfjvghrrhgvrhgruceorghlvhhhvghrrhgvsegrlhhvhhdrnhhoqdhiphdrohhrgh eqnecuggftrfgrthhtvghrnhepvdektdffudfftdffffehfffhjeejhffgieeuueekjeek fffgudffhfduffffueevnecuffhomhgrihhnpegvnhhtvghrphhrihhsvggusgdrtghomh enucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhepmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpegrlhhv hhgvrhhrvgesrghlvhhhrdhnohdqihhprdhorhhg X-ME-Proxy: Feedback-ID: ia2694551:Fastmail Received: by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Wed, 3 Aug 2022 06:58:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D0D99373; Wed, 3 Aug 2022 12:58:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 12:58:04 +0200 From: Alvaro Herrera To: Tom Lane Cc: Peter Smith , PostgreSQL Hackers Subject: Re: [PATCH] postgresql.conf.sample comment alignment. Message-ID: <20220803105804.s6obhhp4qttl4mav@alvherre.pgsql> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <2235495.1659398604@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk 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)