On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 11:17:01AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro?= Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de> writes:
> > It's strange to see this thread go on about messing with the Perl script
> > because we're too afraid of pg_bsd_indent. Maybe we should take
> > ownership of that code -- improve its own indentation to our
> > conventions, add comments, rename unclear variables, and so on until we
> > have something we can work with, and fix these weird bugs and
> > idiosincratic behaviors we don't like. I just found out this code dates
> > back from 1976.
>
> I've worked with that code a little bit, and it's mostly unreadable
> spaghetti :-(. If somebody wants to make an effort to make it not
> so awful, that'd be great, but I fear it's a very nontrivial project.
Yes, this is why we had to wrap the pg_bsd_indent call in Perl.
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