Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 10:03:22 -0500
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org,
	Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Provide support for trailing commas
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On Thu, Jan  8, 2026 at 12:51:14AM -0500, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> On January 7, 2026 11:44:29 PM EST, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan  6, 2026 at 03:35:38PM -0500, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> >> tl;dr Provide support for trailing commas, where possible and practical.
> >> 
> >> (Disclaimer: No LLM or AI was used to craft this patch or this email)
> >> 
> >> Happy New Year! Please find attached a patch to provide comprehensive trailing
> >> comma support, where we allow (when possible) a comma that does NOT come before
> >> the next item in a list. To wit:
> >
> >I am unclear why you bothered to create and work on such a large email
> >and patch rather than ask if this was a desired change;  see:
> >
> >	https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo#Development_Process
> 
> Meh. This kind of change really needs information about the
> implementation cost to be judged. The process described there rarely is
> a good idea for anybody that has some community experience.

I disagree.  It was clear in this case that it was the concept that was
not wanted, rather than the implementation cost.

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