On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 04:50:45PM -0500, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> Please find attached the patch for some cleanup and fix bit rot in pgindent
> script.
>
> There were a few problems with the script.
>
> .) It failed to use the $ENV{PGENTAB} even if it was set.
> .) The file it tries to download from Postgres' ftp site is no longer present.
>
ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev/indent.netbsd.patched.tgz > .) The tar command extracted the above-mentioned file to a child directory, but
> did not descend into it before running make on it.
> I think it expected a tarbomb, but clearly the current .tgz file on ftp
> site is not a tarbomb.
>
> I don't like the fact that it dies with a message "fetching xyz" rather than
> saying "Could not fetch xyz", but this patch does not address that since it
> doesn't really affect the output when script does work.
>
> With this patch in place I could very easily run it on any arbitrary file,
> which seemed like a black-magic before the patch.
>
> src/tools/pgindent/pgindent --build <your file path here>