On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 09:50, Dimitri Fontaine <dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote: > Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: >> What you've got here could be useful >> to people who use emacs and understand they've got to hand-check the >> results. I'm not sure how much further it'd be useful to go. > > Agreed. That's the reason why I'm proposing src/tools/editors in the > first place. I find that it's enough for most of the Nodes I've been > dealing with recently (all the ones that initdb uses, for starters), and > for the other ones it helps a lot in adding the to-be-hand-edited code > at the right place in the right files. > > The goal for this tool is to be more useful an advice to Emacs users > than the usual "pick another patch that added syntax in the past and try > to reproduce what it did as far as nodes support functions goes". > > I can also maintain that in a separate git repository on github, but > that only reduces the already very thin population that could find it > useful.
Since people seem to be less than super-enthusiastic about putting into the core distro, perhaps it would at least be a good startingpoint to do this? Should we perhaps consider a "postgres developer tools" common repository with just a random bunch of tools that people come up with (I assume there are more than just one of them sitting around peoples environments..) -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
