Re: Run pgindent now?

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 05:34:12PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 04:52:38PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> Something is wrong. See aclchk.c changes.
>
> > Yes, this is what I was concerned about. "aclitem" was a typedef in 9.0
> > and 9.1, and the use of that as a typedef in 9.4 is certainly odd:
>
> > - aclitem.ai_grantor = grantorId;
> > + aclitem. ai_grantor = grantorId;
>
> Yeah. I think we might've gotten rid of that typedef partially in order
> to fix this.
>
> A different strategy we could consider is "use HEAD's typedef list
> even in the back branches". This would in some situations lead to
> inferior-looking results in the back branches, but that's probably better
> than inferior results in HEAD. (In any case, we want the same typedef
> list across all branches. Then anyplace where the results diverge, there
> must have been non-pgindent code changes, so that back-patching would
> require manual fixups anyway.)
>
> A longer-term fix would be to make pgindent less stupid about this sort
> of usage, but nobody's yet volunteered to dig into the guts of that code.

I assume a typedefs list is going to be a requirement of any decent C
indenting tool.

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