Re: reprise: pretty print viewdefs

On 12/24/2011 02:26 PM, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>> I've looked at that, and it was discussed a bit previously. It's more
>> complex because it requires that we keep track of (or calculate) where we
>> are on the line,
> You might try a compromise, just spit out all the columns on one line
> *unless* either the previous or next column is longer than something
> like 30 columns. So if you have a long list of short columns it just
> gets wrapped by your terminal but if you have complex expressions like
> CASE expressions or casts or so on they go on a line by themselves.

I think that sounds too complex, honestly. Here's what I have working:

/*
* If the field we're adding already has a leading newline
* or wrap mode is disabled (pretty_wrap < 0), don't add one.
* Otherwise, add one, plus some indentation,
* if either the new field would cause an
* overflow or the last field had a multiline spec.
*/

Here's an illustration:
<http://developer.postgresql.org/~adunstan/pg_get_viewdef.png>

cheers

andrew