Re: pgindent versus struct members and typedefs

Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Dec 3, 2025, at 06:00, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I tried to fix pgindent for a few, but the code is basically impenetrable.
>> I didn't find any fixes upstream [0], either. As noted above, we could
>> also fix it by avoiding the naming conflicts. However, I can't imagine
>> that's worth the churn, and I've already spent way too much time on this,
>> so IMHO the best thing to do here is nothing.

> I think that’s fine.

Agreed, not worth the trouble to fool with.

> Actually I see the other problem with pgindent, where if a “else” clause contains a multiple-line comment and a single statement without braces, for example:
> ...
> I tried to fix but failed. For that problem, a solution is to add braces to the “else” clause.

In this case, I think pgindent is indirectly enforcing good style.
I do not like omitting braces around anything that's more than one
line; readers have to pay close attention to whether the code is
doing what it was intended to.

regards, tom lane