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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Justin Pryzby <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 10:46:01 -0500
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Justin Pryzby <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sat, Feb 04, 2023 at 12:37:11PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> But it's not clear to me why you're allergic to the perl wrapper?

> My allergy is to the totality of the process, not to the perl component.
> It's a bit weird to enforce a coding style that no upstream indent tool
> supports.  But what's weirder is that, *having forked the indent tool*,
> it still doesn't implement the desired style, and the perl wrapper tries
> to work around that.

> It would be more reasonable if the forked C program knew how to handle
> the stuff for which the perl script currently has kludges to munge the
> source code before indenting and then un-munging afterwards.

[ shrug... ]  If you want to put cycles into that, nobody is stopping
you.  For me, it sounds like make-work.

			regards, tom lane

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