MySql coding style: Request for clarification regarding alignment

[Tor Didriksen]

hi

I find the alignment guidelines a bit vague:

"you *may* align variable declarations"
but
"Align assignments from one structure to another"

The first one is not obligatory, but the second one is?

What if I introduce a new member, with a longer name? Should I then
re-align all the other declarations/assignments as well?
That would make the diff bigger than it has to, harder to read, and
give more opportunities for merge conflicts.

-- didrik