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Re: pgindent versus struct members and typedefs

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> — 2026-05-05T21:47:07Z

On Tue, Dec 02, 2025 at 05:51:15PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Dec 3, 2025, at 06:00, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I tried to fix pgindent for a few, but the code is basically impenetrable.
>>> I didn't find any fixes upstream [0], either.  As noted above, we could
>>> also fix it by avoiding the naming conflicts.  However, I can't imagine
>>> that's worth the churn, and I've already spent way too much time on this,
>>> so IMHO the best thing to do here is nothing.
> 
>> I think that’s fine.
> 
> Agreed, not worth the trouble to fool with.

For fun, I spent some time with an AI tool to develop the attached fix for
this problem.  The explanation seems reasonable to me, although I am by no
means a pgindent expert.  When I looked at this in December, I did find
this similar commit from upstream [0], but I failed to make the connection
with last_u_d.  0002 is the result of a pgindent run after applying 0001.
You'll notice that it fixes the exact set of cases I found with grep
upthread.

[0] https://github.com/pstef/freebsd_indent/commit/afa2239

-- 
nathan