Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Preventive maintenance in advanceof pgindent run. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Piotr Stefaniak
Subject Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Preventive maintenance in advanceof pgindent run.
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Preventive maintenance in advanceof pgindent run.  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Preventive maintenance in advanceof pgindent run.  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 2017-05-17 17:55, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 5/17/17 10:14, Tom Lane wrote:
>> What I was concerned about was that pgindent will reindent the second
>> line so that it's impossible to tell whether the spacing is correct.
>
> pgindent moving string continuations to the left is a completely
> terrible behavior anyway and we should look into changing that.  Just
> look at the mess it makes out of SELECT queries in pg_dump.c.

If I remember correctly, it tries to right-align string literals to
whatever -l ("Maximum length of an output line") was set to.



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