Re: Review - Patch for pg_bsd_indent: improve formatting of multiline comments

Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@tigerdata.com>

From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@tigerdata.com>

To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>

Date: 2026-05-12T12:15:31Z

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De-obfuscate the comment in tsrank.c's calc_rank_or().
- 163f20ca12a9 19 (unreleased) landed

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v1-0001-Decipher-the-comment-in-tsrank.c.patch (text/x-patch) patch v1-0001

Hi,

>             /*-----
>              * limit (sum(1/i^2),i=1,inf) = pi^2/6
>              * resj = sum(wi/i^2),i=1,noccurrence,
>              * wi - should be sorted desc,
>              * don't sort for now, just choose maximum weight.
>              * This should be corrected
>              * Oleg Bartunov
>              */
>             res = res + (wjm + resj - wjm / ((jm + 1) * (jm + 1))) / 1.64493406685;
>
> > (Not that I understand what this is trying to tell me, mind)
>
> Me either :-(

I *think* maybe I was able to decipher it. PFA the patch.

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev