On 2016-05-25 22:01:53 +0200, Piotr Stefaniak wrote:
> On 2016-05-25 21:13, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I'd love to see a fix for its brain damage around function pointer typedef formatting, too.
>
> Show me a few examples and I'll look into it.
>
> > I'm excited about this too, not least because it suggests that maybe bsdindent isn't quite as opaque as it
appears.
>
> It's old, hacked on many times over the past few decades and historically
> just a band-aid rather than something designed from the ground up, so it's
> not easy to work with. Which is why I think that a newer tool (like
> ClangFormat) should be considered as a replacement for pg_bsd_indent.
FWIW, I looked at using clang-format at some point, and it looked like
it'd be a number of additional options to make it work for our case
without changing the code layout too much. There seemed limited
enthusiasm from the authors about accepting relevant options.
Andres
