On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 12:52:50PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > On 2023-01-22 Su 17:47, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Yeah. That's one of my biggest gripes about pgperltidy: if you insert
> >> another assignment in a series of assignments, it is very likely to
> >> reformat all the adjacent assignments because it thinks it's cool to
> >> make all the equal signs line up. That's just awful.
>
> > Modern versions of perltidy give you much more control over this, so
> > maybe we need to investigate the possibility of updating.
>
> I have no objection to updating perltidy from time to time. I think the
> idea is just to make sure that we have an agreed-on version for everyone
> to use.
Agreed. If we're changing the indentation of assignments, that's a
considerable diff already. It would be a good time to absorb other diffs
we'll want eventually, including diffs from a perltidy version upgrade.