Re: pgindent vs. pgperltidy command-line arguments

On 25.05.23 15:20, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> writes:
>> Until PG15, calling pgindent without arguments would process the whole
>> tree. Now you get
>> No files to process at ./src/tools/pgindent/pgindent line 372.
>> Is that intentional?
>
> It was intentional, cf b16259b3c and the linked discussion.
>
>> Also, pgperltidy accepts no arguments and always processes the whole
>> tree. It would be nice if there were a way to process individual files
>> or directories, like pgindent can.
>
> +1, although I wonder if we shouldn't follow pgindent's new lead
> and require some argument(s).

That makes sense to me. Here is a small update with this behavior
change and associated documentation update.