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From: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: solaimurugan vellaipandiyan <[email protected]>
Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <[email protected]>
Cc: Payal Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Review - Patch for pg_bsd_indent: improve formatting of multiline comments
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 17:50:41 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 2026-May-10, Tom Lane wrote:

> Attached are a proposed v8 of the patch, plus two diff files showing
> the effects.  v7-0001.diff.nocfbot is what the v7 patch does with
> today's HEAD (it's the same as before).  The v8 patch makes all those
> changes and in addition makes the ones shown in v8-0001.diff.nocfbot.
> I think those are pretty much all improvements, except that it kind
> of messes up Martin Utesch's ASCII-art signatures in the geqo files.
> That's because there are some lines starting with '*' and some with
> '='.  This is another place where I doubt it's worth the trouble to
> try to make pgindent handle the case nicely; I propose just manually
> adding leading '*'s to those comments before running pgindent.

Just passing by, but I think this comment should be handled manually as
well, as I doubt we want it to end up this way:

> diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/tsrank.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/tsrank.c
> index d35e5528d0a..6b4bf8eb13b 100644
> --- a/src/backend/utils/adt/tsrank.c
> +++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/tsrank.c
> @@ -337,12 +337,12 @@ calc_rank_or(const float *w, TSVector t, TSQuery q)
>  				}
>  			}
>  /*
> -			limit (sum(1/i^2),i=1,inf) = pi^2/6
> -			resj = sum(wi/i^2),i=1,noccurrence,
> -			wi - should be sorted desc,
> -			don't sort for now, just choose maximum weight. This should be corrected
> -			Oleg Bartunov
> -*/
> + * limit (sum(1/i^2),i=1,inf) = pi^2/6
> + * resj = sum(wi/i^2),i=1,noccurrence,
> + * wi - should be sorted desc,
> + * don't sort for now, just choose maximum weight. This should be corrected
> + * Oleg Bartunov
> + */
>  			res = res + (wjm + resj - wjm / ((jm + 1) * (jm + 1))) / 1.64493406685;
>  
>  			entry++;

(Not that I understand what this is trying to tell me, mind)

-- 
Álvaro Herrera         PostgreSQL Developer  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"¿Cómo puedes confiar en algo que pagas y que no ves,
y no confiar en algo que te dan y te lo muestran?" (Germán Poo)





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