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From: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Jelte Fennema <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>
Cc: Noah Misch <[email protected]>
Cc: Jesse Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 11:44:46 -0500
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On 2023-01-22 Su 17:47, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund<[email protected]>  writes:
>> I strongly dislike it, I rarely get it right by hand - but it does have some
>> benefit over aligning variable names based on the length of the type names as
>> uncrustify/clang-format: In their approach an added local variable can cause
>> all the other variables to be re-indented (and their initial value possibly
>> wrapped). The fixed alignment doesn't have that issue.
> 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.  You can either
> run pgperltidy on new code before committing, and accept that the feature
> patch will touch a lot of lines it's not making real changes to (thereby
> dirtying the "git blame" history) or not do so and thereby commit code
> that's not passing tidiness checks.  Let's *not* adopt any style that
> causes similar things to start happening in our C code.


Modern versions of perltidy give you much more control over this, so 
maybe we need to investigate the possibility of updating. See the latest 
docco at 
<*https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Tidy/view/bin/perltidy#Completely-turning-off-vertical-alignment-with...;
*

Probably we'd want to use something like

|--valign-exclusion-list=||'= => ,'|
||
||
|cheers|
||
|andrew|

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Andrew Dunstan
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