Re: [PATCH] pg_bsd_indent: improve formatting of multiline comments

On Mon, May 04, 2026 at 12:40:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Another amusing diff I noticed:
>
> --- a/src/backend/partitioning/partbounds.c
> +++ b/src/backend/partitioning/partbounds.c
> @@ -5713,7 +5713,7 @@ check_parent_values_in_new_partitions(Relation parent,
> * 3. In case new partitions don't contain the DEFAULT partition and the
> * partitioned table does not have the DEFAULT partition, the following
> * should be true: the sum of the bounds of new partitions should be equal
> - & to the bound of the split partition.
> + * & to the bound of the split partition.
> *
> * parent: partitioned table
> * splitPartOid: split partition Oid
>
> Clearly, this is somebody's off-by-one-key typo, and the correct
> fix is s/&/*/. I suspect that fixing that manually is the most
> expedient answer, rather than trying to make pg_bsd_indent smart
> enough to DTRT.

+1. This patch has been rather good at finding small mistakes like this,
which I've been manually fixing along the way.

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nathan