Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>, "shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com" <shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Jesse Zhang <sbjesse@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2023-04-28T18:08:18Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 03:44:47PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 2023-04-26 We 09:27, Tom Lane wrote:
> I doubt there's something like that. You can freeze arbitrary blocks of code
> like this (from the manual)
> 
> #<<<  format skipping: do not let perltidy change my nice formatting
>         my @list = (1,
>                     1, 1,
>                     1, 2, 1,
>                     1, 3, 3, 1,
>                     1, 4, 6, 4, 1,);
> #>>>   
> 
> 
> But that gets old and ugly pretty quickly.

Can those comments be added by a preprocessor before calling perltidy,
and then removed on completion?

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Fix comment from commit 22655aa231.
- 01529c704008 17.0 cited
Add a few recent commits to .git-blame-ignore-revs.
- 0df7d1da40e3 17.0 landed
Pre-beta2 mechanical code beautification.
- b334612b8aee 16.0 landed
Pre-beta mechanical code beautification.
- 0245f8db36f3 16.0 landed
Make agreed-on updates in perltidy options.
- df6b19fbbc20 16.0 landed
Remove obsolete pgindent options --code-base and --build
- b16259b3c189 16.0 landed
Integrate pg_bsd_indent into our build/test infrastructure.
- 156c049beed9 16.0 landed
Sync pg_bsd_indent's copyright notices with Postgres practice.
- b44e5fced3e5 16.0 landed
Import pg_bsd_indent sources.
- 4e831f4cee14 16.0 landed
pgindent: filter files for the --commit option
- dab07e8c6896 16.0 landed
pgindent: more ways to find files to indent
- 068a243b7771 16.0 landed
Fix pgindent --show-diff option.
- 62e1e28bf769 16.0 cited
Add non-destructive modes to pgindent
- b90f0b57474e 16.0 landed
Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.
- e3860ffa4dd0 10.0 cited