Re: pgindent and multiline string constants

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Somehow pgindent appears to do odd things with multiline string constants, 
> such as

> somefunc(&blah,
>          "lots of text"
>          "with mulitple lines"
>          "like this");

> Afterwards this looks more like this:

> somefunc(&blah,
>      "lots of text"
>          "with mulitple lines"
>        "like this");

Sometimes it does that to keep the lines from extending past column 80.
I'm not sure that this is an improvement :-(, but anyway you can fix it
by breaking the string literal into smaller chunks so that there's no
line-wrapping going on in an 80-column view.
        regards, tom lane