On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 11:17:01AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > =?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro?= Herrera <[email protected]> writes: > > 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. > > I've worked with that code a little bit, and it's mostly unreadable > spaghetti :-(. If somebody wants to make an effort to make it not > so awful, that'd be great, but I fear it's a very nontrivial project.
Yes, this is why we had to wrap the pg_bsd_indent call in Perl. -- Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Do not let urgent matters crowd out time for investment in the future.
