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Re: pg_dump --pretty-print-views

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Marko Tiikkaja <pgmail@joh.to>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-01-10T17:35:00Z
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> I think there's a very good case for breaking the nexus between 
> PRETTYFLAG_PAREN and PRETTYFLAG_INDENT+line wrapping for views. Only 
> PRETTYFLAG_PAREN affects the safety issue. The others are just about 
> white space in safe places.

What I was actually thinking about was turning on indent/linewrapping
all the time (ie, no change on pg_dump's side, just hack ruleutils).
If we believe it's safe, why not just do it?  It's the paren-removal
that pg_dump can't tolerate.

			regards, tom lane