Re: pgindent cleanup

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-04-05T02:06:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> Following up Tom's complaint about behaviour of pgindent, I have been 
> wrestling with it a bit. I noticed several things.
> 
> First awk on my box spits out fairly useless warnings about regular 
> expressions containing a literal '\*'. These warnings are silenced by 
> replacing those with '[*]', which should have the same effect.
> 
> Second, the script issues warnings about how somebody hopes that I 
> installed indent.bsd.patch. Yes I did, and the messages are just 
> annoying noise, so I propose to get rid of them. The usual rule of unix 
> utilities is to be silent on success, and I think we should follow it.
> 
> Third, as mentioned in that other thread I think we  should put the 
> exclusion of certain typedef symbols into the pgindent script.
> 
> The attached patch does all three of these things.
> 
> I'm not done yet - I am seeing issues with at least two files: 
> contrib/fuzzystrmatch/dmetaphone.c and 
> src/backend/tsearch/wparser_def.c, that I need to chase down.
> 
> Ideally, this hodegpodge of awk and sed pipes would be replaced by a 
> perl script that would do all that inline much more efficiently, along 
> with some more features. But that's a longer term project.

Looks fine to me.

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