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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 2023-01-22 Su 17:47, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah.  That's one of my biggest gripes about pgperltidy: if you insert
>> another assignment in a series of assignments, it is very likely to
>> reformat all the adjacent assignments because it thinks it's cool to
>> make all the equal signs line up.  That's just awful.

> Modern versions of perltidy give you much more control over this, so 
> maybe we need to investigate the possibility of updating.

I have no objection to updating perltidy from time to time. I think the
idea is just to make sure that we have an agreed-on version for everyone
to use.

			regards, tom lane