Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 03:44:47PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

On 2023-04-26 We 09:27, Tom Lane wrote:
I doubt there's something like that. You can freeze arbitrary blocks of code
like this (from the manual)

#<<<  format skipping: do not let perltidy change my nice formatting
        my @list = (1,
                    1, 1,
                    1, 2, 1,
                    1, 3, 3, 1,
                    1, 4, 6, 4, 1,);
#>>>   


But that gets old and ugly pretty quickly.

Can those comments be added by a preprocessor before calling perltidy,
and then removed on completion?

I imagine so, but we'd need a way of determining algorithmically which lines to protect. That might not be at all simple. And then we'd have the maintenance burden of the preprocessor.

cheers

andrew

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