On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Andrew Dunstan
<andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 3:55 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I noticed that doing pgindent with the current typedefs list available
>> from the buildfarm caused a lot of havoc in what had been stable code.
>> Looking into the reasons, it seems that:
>>
>> (1) "bool" is no longer listed as a typedef name (probably because
>> stdbool.h makes it a macro instead);
>>
>> (2) "abs", "boolean", "iterator", "other", "pointer", "reference",
>> "string", and "type" all now are listed as typedef names.
>>
>> It's probably okay to treat "boolean" as a typedef, but all those others
>> are complete disasters. Anyone know where they're coming from?
>>
>> As for "bool", we could probably deal with that most reliably by
>> having pgindent add it as a special case. Maybe we could get it
>> back in there by having some trailing-edge buildfarm member
>> contribute typedefs, but that seems like a solution with a rather
>> limited half-life.
>>
>
>
> pgindent already has a list of blacklisted typedefs (see lines 121 to 123)
>
Here's a patch to pgindent which I think will do what you want fairly
simply, assuming you have identified all the offending tokens.
cheers
andrew
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