On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 11:14:52AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes:
> > In summary, among those warnings, I see non-negative value in "Code before
> > warnings are enabled" only.  While we're changing this, I propose removing
> > Subroutines::RequireFinalReturn.
> 
> If it's possible to turn off just that warning, then +several.

We'd not get that warning if src/tools/perlcheck/pgperlcritic stopped enabling
it by name, so it is possible to turn off by removing lines from that config.

> It's routinely caused buildfarm failures, yet I can detect exactly
> no value in it.  If there were sufficient cross-procedural analysis
> backing it to detect whether any caller examines the subroutine's
> result value, then it'd be worth having.  But there isn't, so those
> extra returns are just pedantic verbosity.

Agreed.


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