On 2017-06-16 13:44:30 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 01:34:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > I could live with both of these proposed
> > > changes, the selection of the changes you posted looks like it could be
> > > improved by code changes, but that's obviously a large amount of work.
> >
> > In the end, the only thing that fixes this sort of stuff is to be more
> > rigid about making the code fit into 80 columns to begin with. I get
> > the impression though that a lot of people work in editor windows that
> > are wider than that, so the code looks fine to them when it slops over
> > a bit.
>
> Yes, it is all about <80 column output. The current pgindent does
> everything possible to accomplish that --- the question is whether we
> want uglier code to do it.
For me personally the misindentation is way uglier than a too long line.
I think a number of those long-lines are there because pgindent
sometimes re-indents lines that are continuations of previous ones
pretty far, making it hard to reduce indentation.
- Andres
