Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

From: Jelte Fennema <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Jesse Zhang <sbjesse(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner
Date: 2023-01-22 17:20:49
Message-ID: CAGECzQRYjHdNQ-Bq2yrBb-8s3Pjx7pfvYPDdNv9tcvDcscDhbg@mail.gmail.com
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> But so far I haven't seen one that can make that
> column be column +12.

Thanks for clarifying what the current variable declaration indention
rule is. Indeed neither uncrustify or clang-format seem to support
that. Getting uncrustify to support it might not be too difficult, but
the question remains if we even want that.

> But switching away from that intermixed with a lot of other changes isn't going to be fun.

I don't think the amount of pain is really much lower if we reformat
10,000 or 300,000 lines of code, without automation both would be
quite painful. But the git commands I shared in my previous email
should alleviate most of that pain.

> I don't have a problem with the current pgindent alignment of function
> parameters, so not sure what you mean about that.

Function parameter alignment is fine with pgindent imho, but this +12
column variable declaration thing I personally think is quite weird.

> Really? I have been using 14, which is quite recent. Did you just
> figure this out recently? If this is true, then it's certainly
> discouraging.

It seems this was due to my Ubuntu 22.04 install having clang-format
14.0.0. After
updating it to 14.0.6 by using the official llvm provided packages, I
don't have this
issue on clang-format-14 anymore. To be clear this was an issue in alignment of
variable declarations not function parameters.

But I agree with Tom Lane that this makes clear that whatever tool we
pick we'll need
to pick a specific version, just like we do now with perltidy. And
indeed I'm not sure
how easy that is with clang. Installing a specific uncrustify version
is pretty easy btw,
the compilation from source is quite quick.

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