Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> For a while I've been baffled by that: the first arguments of later
> lines don't line up with that of the first line, but they're also not
> in a constant column (it varies from function to function), and it's
> also not caused by 8-space vs 4-space confusion. It was only when I
> put those two things next to each other just now in this email that I
> finally spotted the logic it's using: if you remove "extern int " then
> the later lines line up with the first argument of the top line. This
> works for other examples I looked at too. Huh.
Yeah. I suspect that the underlying cause is that pgindent doesn't
really distinguish function declarations from definitions, at least
not when it comes time to indent the lines after the first one.
> That's ... annoying. I wish indent wouldn't do that, because it means
> that my declarations get moved around every time I write code.
If you can fix it, I'd vote for accepting the patch. I don't personally
have the desire to dig into the indent code that much ...
regards, tom lane