Re: pgindent behavior we could do without

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 01:46:34PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:27:21AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I assert that we should simply remove both of these bits of code, as
> >> just about every committer on the project is smarter about when to use
> >> vertical whitespace than this program is.
>
> > OK, I have developed the attached patch that shows the code change of
> > removing the test for #else/#elif/#endif. You will see that the new
> > output has odd blank lines for cases like:
>
> > #ifndef WIN32
> > static int copy_file(const char *fromfile, const char *tofile, bool force);
> > -->
> > #else
> > static int win32_pghardlink(const char *src, const char *dst);
> > -->
> > #endif
>
> Hm. So actually, that code is trying to undo excess vertical whitespace
> that something earlier in pgindent added? Where is that happening?

I am afraid it is _inside_ BSD indent, and if ever looked at that code,
you would not want to go in there. :-O

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