Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

I wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> I doubt there's something like that.

> I had a read-through of the latest version's man page, and found
> this promising-looking entry:
>     -boc, --break-at-old-comma-breakpoints

Sadly, this seems completely not ready for prime time.  I experimented
with it under perltidy 20230309, and found that it caused hundreds
of kilobytes of gratuitous changes that don't seem to have a direct
connection to the claimed purpose.  Most of these seemed to be from
forcing a line break after a function call's open paren, like

@@ -50,10 +50,12 @@ detects_heap_corruption(
 #
 fresh_test_table('test');
 $node->safe_psql('postgres', q(VACUUM (FREEZE, DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING) test));
-detects_no_corruption("verify_heapam('test')",
+detects_no_corruption(
+    "verify_heapam('test')",
     "all-frozen not corrupted table");
 corrupt_first_page('test');
-detects_heap_corruption("verify_heapam('test')",
+detects_heap_corruption(
+    "verify_heapam('test')",
     "all-frozen corrupted table");
 detects_no_corruption(
     "verify_heapam('test', skip := 'all-frozen')",

although in some places it just wanted to insert a space, like this:

@@ -77,9 +81,9 @@ print "standby 2: $result\n";
 is($result, qq(33|0|t), 'check streamed sequence content on standby 2');
 
 # Check that only READ-only queries can run on standbys
-is($node_standby_1->psql('postgres', 'INSERT INTO tab_int VALUES (1)'),
+is( $node_standby_1->psql('postgres', 'INSERT INTO tab_int VALUES (1)'),
     3, 'read-only queries on standby 1');
-is($node_standby_2->psql('postgres', 'INSERT INTO tab_int VALUES (1)'),
+is( $node_standby_2->psql('postgres', 'INSERT INTO tab_int VALUES (1)'),
     3, 'read-only queries on standby 2');
 
 # Tests for connection parameter target_session_attrs


So I don't think we want that.  Maybe in some future version it'll
be more under control.

Barring objections, I'll use the attached on Friday.

            regards, tom lane

commit 7874d0f178f2bcdc889ce410d3e126e6750d96b4
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date:   Wed May 17 16:43:38 2023 -0400

    Make agreed updates in perltidy options.

    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230428092545.qfb3y5wcu4cm75ur@alvherre.pgsql

diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/README b/src/tools/pgindent/README
index 43c736b0a1..08874d12eb 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/README
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/README
@@ -14,16 +14,16 @@ PREREQUISITES:
    sibling directory src/tools/pg_bsd_indent; see the directions
    in that directory's README file.

-2) Install perltidy.  Please be sure it is version 20170521 (older and newer
+2) Install perltidy.  Please be sure it is version 20230309 (older and newer
    versions make different formatting choices, and we want consistency).
    You can get the correct version from
    https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHANCOCK/
    To install, follow the usual install process for a Perl module
    ("man perlmodinstall" explains it).  Or, if you have cpan installed,
    this should work:
-   cpan SHANCOCK/Perl-Tidy-20170521.tar.gz
+   cpan SHANCOCK/Perl-Tidy-20230309.tar.gz
    Or if you have cpanm installed, you can just use:
-   cpanm https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHANCOCK/Perl-Tidy-20170521.tar.gz
+   cpanm https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHANCOCK/Perl-Tidy-20230309.tar.gz

 DOING THE INDENT RUN:

diff --git a/src/tools/pgindent/perltidyrc b/src/tools/pgindent/perltidyrc
index 9f09f0a64e..589d6e1f06 100644
--- a/src/tools/pgindent/perltidyrc
+++ b/src/tools/pgindent/perltidyrc
@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@
 --paren-vertical-tightness=2
 --paren-vertical-tightness-closing=2
 --noblanks-before-comments
+--valign-exclusion-list=", = => =~ |= || && if or qw unless"