Thanks for your attention! That sentence made me believe the style guide was outdated, but then I found fairly recent posts referring to it and got confused.On Sep 26, 2019 10:53, Peter Eisentraut wrote:On 2019-09-25 00:13, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut writes:
>> PostgreSQL 12 requires C9
On 2019-09-25 00:13, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut writes:
>> PostgreSQL 12 requires C99, so those guidelines should probably be
>> rephrased from "because old compilers don't accept it" to "because we
>> like it that way".
>
> Yeah, or more formally "to encourage consistent coding style".
Peter Eisentraut writes:
> PostgreSQL 12 requires C99, so those guidelines should probably be
> rephrased from "because old compilers don't accept it" to "because we
> like it that way".
Yeah, or more formally "to encourage consistent coding style".
regards, tom lane
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