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

Hi,

> It's strange to see this thread go on about messing with the Perl script
> because we're too afraid of pg_bsd_indent.  Maybe we should take
> ownership of that code -- improve its own indentation to our
> conventions, add comments, rename unclear variables, and so on until we
> have something we can work with, and fix these weird bugs and
> idiosincratic behaviors we don't like.  I just found out this code dates
> back from 1976.

> With or without that nice-to-have, it'd be a lot of work with
> not all that much payoff, so I'm finding it hard to recommend
> that somebody go after this.  But maybe someone will find it
> irresistible to scratch that itch.

I was thinking just recently that rewriting pgindent in Python might
be a good idea for future refactoring, but probably only if and after
we merge PyTest patchset [1]. (Which strangely enough is missing on
the nearest open commitfest.)

[1]:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAOYmi%2BkThkM9Z87u%3DR_Wi7fCor2i%2BUZKAyq0UCyprzCwTQvqgA%40mail.gmail.com
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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev