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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Aleksander Alekseev <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Arseniy Mukhin <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pg_bsd_indent: improve formatting of multiline comments
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 09:56:41 -0400
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 04:44:08PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Hi Arseniy,
> 
> > I tried it with the whole project and almost always it works great.
> > But I noticed two cases where it works probably not as expected:
> >
> > 1) comments which don't have a star on each line. For example:
> > file 'cube.c'
> >
> > before:
> > /* make up a metric in which one box will be 'lower' than the other
> >    -- this can be useful for sorting and to determine uniqueness */
> >
> > after:
> > /*
> >  * make up a metric in which one box will be 'lower' than the other
> >    -- this can be useful for sorting and to determine uniqueness */
> >
> > 2) comments where closing */ is on the last comment line. For example:
> > file 'crypt-blowfish.c'
> >
> > before:
> > /* This has to be bug-compatible with the original implementation, so
> >  * only encode 23 of the 24 bytes. :-) */
> >
> > after:
> > /*
> >  * This has to be bug-compatible with the original implementation, so
> >  * only encode 23 of the 24 bytes. :-) */
> 
> Thanks for the review. You are right, these comments shouldn't be affected.
> 
> It's going to be simpler to modify pgindent then. PFA the updated patch.

Given the quality of BSD indent code, I have _always_ found it easier to
modify pgindent.  ;-

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