Re: Undesirable entries in typedefs list

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 8:32 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>>> pgindent already has a list of blacklisted typedefs (see lines 121 to 123)
>
> Oh, so it does.
>
>> Here's a patch to pgindent which I think will do what you want fairly
>> simply, assuming you have identified all the offending tokens.
>
> Hm, this does not work for me (with perl 5.10.1), I get syntax errors like
>
> Not enough arguments for map at src/tools/pgindent/pgindent line 64, near "abs allocfunc iterator other pointer
printfuncreference string type )"
 
>   (Might be a runaway multi-line () string starting on line 63)
> syntax error at src/tools/pgindent/pgindent line 64, near "abs allocfunc iterator other pointer printfunc reference
stringtype )"
 
> Execution of src/tools/pgindent/pgindent aborted due to compilation errors.
>
> After reading the perlfunc man page I changed
>
> -my %blacklist = map { "$_\n" => 1 }
> +my %blacklist = map { +"$_\n" => 1 }
>
> and then it seems to work, but man this is an ugly language :-(
>

Yes, there are lots of quirks that can make it fun to deal with.

Thanks for fixing and committing.

cheers

andrew

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