Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> On 24.04.23 16:14, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I certainly don't like its current behavior where adding/changing one
>> line can have side-effects on nearby lines. But we have a proposal
>> to clean that up, and I'm cautiously optimistic that it'll be better
>> in future. Did you have other specific concerns?

> I think the worst is how it handles multi-line data structures like

> $newnode->command_ok(
> [
> 'psql', '-X',
> '-v', 'ON_ERROR_STOP=1',
> '-c', $upcmds,
> '-d', $oldnode->connstr($updb),
> ],
> "ran version adaptation commands for database $updb");

Yeah, I agree, there is no case where that doesn't suck. I don't
mind it imposing specific placements of brackets and so on ---
that's very analogous to what pgindent will do. But it likes to
re-flow comma-separated lists, and generally manages to make a
complete logical hash of them when it does, as in your other
example:

> $node->command_fails_like(
> [
> 'pg_basebackup', '-D',
> "$tempdir/backup", '--compress',
> $cft->[0]
> ],
> qr/$cfail/,
> 'client ' . $cft->[2]);

Can we fix it to preserve the programmer's choices of line breaks
in comma-separated lists?

regards, tom lane