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.