Re: pgindent vs dtrace on macos

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgindent vs dtrace on macos
Date: 2020-09-22 14:18:40
Message-ID: 1177223.1600784320@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
>> On 21 Sep 2020, at 20:55, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Here's a proposed patch to fix it that way.

> +1 on this patch. Do you think it's worth adding a note about this in the
> documentation to save the next one staring at this a few minutes? Something
> along the lines of:

> +If an exported function shares a name with a typedef, the header file with the
> +prototype can get incorrect spacing for the function.

AFAIK, a function name that's the same as a typedef name will get
misformatted whether it's exported or not; pgindent doesn't really
know the difference. But yeah, we could add something about this.

regards, tom lane

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