On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> ... we could leave the parentheses out in >> whichever case it's equivalent to. > > Ah, I see what you're getting at now. Yeah, that might be a useful > readability improvement. > >> ... I fairly commonly >> write queries that involve multiple UNION ALL branches and, no matter >> how clever we are, having that lead to progressively deeper nesting at >> each level is not going to look nice. > > Agreed. I was wondering myself whether we couldn't fix things so that > all the branches are indented the same, even with parens.
Hmm, yeah, maybe. Not sure how ugly it'd be. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
