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)
cheers
andrew
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