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From: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
To: Aleksander Alekseev <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Arseniy Mukhin <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pg_bsd_indent: improve formatting of multiline comments
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:25:15 -0500
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 01:42:32PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
>> Do we want to skip such comments?
>> I have also seen comments with '====' border.
> 
> Personally I don't have a strong opinion on this. We can easily add an
> exception for "/* ---" and "/* ===" comments if somebody believes this
> is a problem. I choose not to add such an exception just yet only
> because I don't like unnecessary exceptions :)

+1 for adding an exception for "/* -----" style comments.  I tested running
pgindent after applying the patch, and the first thing I noticed was all
these (IMHO) unnecessary changes.  I don't think it helps readability, and
even if it did, it's arguably not worth the churn.

-- 
nathan





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