Re: [PATCH] pgindent truncates last line of files missing a trailing newline

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Akshay Joshi <akshay.joshi@enterprisedb.com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-03-27T19:28:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 2026-03-26 Th 12:29 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm not sure I want to expend the brain cells to figure out whether
>> this is a correct/complete patch.  If pg_bsd_indent were less of an
>> undercommented spaghetti-code nightmare, maybe fixing it here would
>> be reasonable.  But as things stand, why don't we just fix this in
>> the perl wrapper, as attached?

> Well, I thought we were trying to reduce the fixups we did in pgindent. 

Yeah, other things being equal I too would prefer to fix it within
pg_bsd_indent.  But other things are not equal: the complexity
and reviewability of the proposed v2 patch are not comparable to
a one-liner fix in the wrapper.

> However, I take your point about the ugly nature of the pg_bsd_indent 
> code. So I'm ok with this fix, which is quite straightforward.

I'll make it so.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. pgindent: ensure all C files end with a newline.