Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Jelte Fennema <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, "shiy(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <shiy(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Jesse Zhang <sbjesse(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner
Date: 2023-10-29 14:22:27
Message-ID: 9af5e9e7-b5e8-c761-33d0-453c660e8fca@dunslane.net
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On 2023-10-28 Sa 12:09, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> Based on recent experience, where a lot koel's recent complaints seem to
>> be about comments, I'd like to suggest a modest adjustment.
>> First, we should provide a mode of pgindent that doesn't reflow
>> comments. pg_bsd_indent has a flag for this (-nfcb), so this should be
>> relatively simple.  Second, koel could use that mode, so that it
>> wouldn't complain about comments it thinks need to be reflowed. Of
>> course, we'd fix these up with our regular pgindent runs.
> Seems like a bit of a kluge. Maybe it's the right thing to do, but
> I don't think we have enough data points yet to be confident that
> it'd meaningfully reduce the number of breakages.
>
> On a more abstract level: the point of trying to maintain indent
> cleanliness is so that if you modify a file and then want to run
> pgindent on your own changes, you don't get incidental changes
> elsewhere in the file. This solution would break that, so I'm
> not sure it isn't throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Yeah, could be.

cheers

andrew.

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Andrew Dunstan
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