Chris Browne wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) writes: > > Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I think pg_indent has to be made a lot more portable and easy to use > >> before that can happen :-) I've run it once or twice on linux machines, > >> and it comes out with huge changes compared to what Bruce gets on his > >> machine. > > > > Yeah, I've had no luck with it either. > > > > Every so often there are discussions of going over to GNU indent > > instead. Presumably that would solve the portability problem. > > The last time we tried it (which was a long time ago) it seemed > > to have too many bugs and idiosyncrasies of its own, but it would > > be worth a fresh round of experimenting IMHO. > > Well, GNU indent is now on version 2.2.9, and has evidently addressed > *some* problems with it. > > Unfortunately, the pgindent README does not actually specify what any > of the actual problems with GNU indent are, thus making it pretty much > impossible to evaluate whether or not any of the subsequent releases > might have addressed any of those problems. > > I doubt that the pgindent issues have been addressed.
What I did was to run pgindent on the source tree, make a copy, then run GNU indent on it and diff -r. I can try that test again in the next few months. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
