Re: Add --check option to pgindent

On Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 2:46 PM CST, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 2023-12-12 Tu 10:30, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2023-Dec-12, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >> "Euler Taveira" <euler@eulerto.com> writes:
> >>> When you add exceptions, it starts to complicate the UI.
> >> Indeed.  It seems like --silent-diff was poorly defined and poorly
> >> named, and we need to rethink that option along the way to adding
> >> this behavior.  The idea that --show-diff and --silent-diff can
> >> be used together is just inherently confusing, because they sound
> >> like opposites
> > Maybe it's enough to rename --silent-diff to --check.  You can do
> > "--show-diff --check" and get both the error and the diff printed; or
> > just "--check" and it'll throw an error without further ado; or
> > "--show-diff" and it will both apply the diff and print it.
> >
>
> That seems reasonable. These features were fairly substantially debated 
> when we put them in, but I'm fine with some tweaking. But note: 
> --show-diff doesn't apply the diff, it's intentionally non-destructive.

Here is a new patch:

- Renames --silent-diff to --check
- Renames --show-diff to --diff
- Allows one to use --check and --diff in the same command

I am not tied to the second patch if people like --show-diff better than 
--diff.

Weirdly enough, my email client doesn't show this as part of the 
original thread, but I will respond here anyway.

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Tristan Partin
Neon (https://neon.tech)