Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

I wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> I doubt there's something like that.

> I had a read-through of the latest version's man page, and found
> this promising-looking entry:
> -boc, --break-at-old-comma-breakpoints

Sadly, this seems completely not ready for prime time. I experimented
with it under perltidy 20230309, and found that it caused hundreds
of kilobytes of gratuitous changes that don't seem to have a direct
connection to the claimed purpose. Most of these seemed to be from
forcing a line break after a function call's open paren, like

@@ -50,10 +50,12 @@ detects_heap_corruption(
#
fresh_test_table('test');
$node->safe_psql('postgres', q(VACUUM (FREEZE, DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING) test));
-detects_no_corruption("verify_heapam('test')",
+detects_no_corruption(
+ "verify_heapam('test')",
"all-frozen not corrupted table");
corrupt_first_page('test');
-detects_heap_corruption("verify_heapam('test')",
+detects_heap_corruption(
+ "verify_heapam('test')",
"all-frozen corrupted table");
detects_no_corruption(
"verify_heapam('test', skip := 'all-frozen')",

although in some places it just wanted to insert a space, like this:

@@ -77,9 +81,9 @@ print "standby 2: $result\n";
is($result, qq(33|0|t), 'check streamed sequence content on standby 2');

# Check that only READ-only queries can run on standbys
-is($node_standby_1->psql('postgres', 'INSERT INTO tab_int VALUES (1)'),
+is( $node_standby_1->psql('postgres', 'INSERT INTO tab_int VALUES (1)'),
3, 'read-only queries on standby 1');
-is($node_standby_2->psql('postgres', 'INSERT INTO tab_int VALUES (1)'),
+is( $node_standby_2->psql('postgres', 'INSERT INTO tab_int VALUES (1)'),
3, 'read-only queries on standby 2');

# Tests for connection parameter target_session_attrs

So I don't think we want that. Maybe in some future version it'll
be more under control.

Barring objections, I'll use the attached on Friday.

regards, tom lane