Re: [HACKERS] Preliminary results for proposed new pgindentimplementation

On 2017-06-16 20:11, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> On 2017-06-16 13:44:30 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Yes, it is all about <80 column output.  The current pgindent does
>>> everything possible to accomplish that --- the question is whether we
>>> want uglier code to do it.
> 
>> For me personally the misindentation is way uglier than a too long line.

> 
> I assume though that Piotr wants an option to preserve that behavior.
> I'm happy to write up a patch for bsdindent that adds a switch
> controlling this, but is there any rhyme or reason to the way its
> switches are named?

I don't want to preserve the current behavior at all, but I might need
to add an option for choosing one or the other if users of FreeBSD
indent protest.

I don't have a good name for it. The best I can do is -lpl ("-lp long
lines too").  Can I see the patch?