Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I think mostly what you are doing here is causing code drift from the >> upstream "zic" code. I don't think that's a very good idea, since we >> do need to be able to track and apply bug fixes from them from time >> to time ...
> Why run pgindent on the timezone code, then? That seems guaranteed to > cause a lot more merge headaches... Well, it's certainly hopeless to expect "patch" to fix it :-(. But the further the code drifts the harder it gets to compare manually. This isn't an academic concern; I went through it once already, and I expect we'll want to do it again every release cycle when we sync the zic database with upstream. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly