darold/pgFormatter v5.1

Version 5.1

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September 28 2021 - v5.1

This maintenance release fixes issues reported by users since the last six months with some improvements and new features.

New options and features:

• Alternate format type (option -t) now keep enumeration in GROUP BY clause on a single line.
• Add new option -k or --keep-newline to preserve empty line in plpgsql code.
• Look for .pg_format configuration file in local directory first then in the $HOME directory.

• Force UTF8 encoding for all I/O to solve unicode character in object name parsing issues.

Here is the complete list of changes and acknowledgments:

  - Fix typo in documentation with use of echo instead of cat. Thanks to
    Сергей Бурладян for the patch.
  - Fix space added after negative sign of numbers. Thanks to Carlos Hanson
    for the report.
  - Formatting words with CREATE prefix or DROP suffix raises a deadly
    warning. Thanks to Martin Jan Kohler for the patch.
  - Fix indentation in CASE clause. Thanks to jonyscathe for the report.
  - Force UTF8 encoding for all I/O to solve unicode character in object name
    parsing issues. Thanks to Monson Shao for the report.
  - Fix formatting of the BETWEEN clause. Thanks to Monson Shao for the report.
  - Look for .pg_format configuration file in local directory first then in the
    $HOME directory. Thanks to Peter Lithammer for the suggestion.
  - Add option -k or --keep-newline to preserve empty line in plpgsql code.
    This doesn't work with comments for the moment. Thanks to Andrey Larionov
    for the feature request.
  - Fix "Unmatched ) in regex;" error. Thanks to Hew Wolff for the report.
  - Fix an other use of uninitialized value in substitution iterator. Thanks to
    Christophe Courtois for the report.
  - Fix false positives for TYPE keyword and fix %TYPE and %ROWTYPE. Thanks to
    Hew Wolff for the report
  - Option -t (alternate format type) now keep enumeration in GROUP BY clause
    on a single line. Thanks to MeadMaker pfassina for the feature request.
  - Remove temporary debug code
  - Fix indentation of FROM and WHERE in subquery. Thanks to Hew Wolff and
    Sergey Shepelev for the report.
  - Fix indentation before RETURNS when it is a RETURNS NULL ON clause.
  - Fix seadly warning: Filehandle STDIN reopened as $[...] only for output.
    Thanks to Andrew Dunstan for the report.
  - Fix formatting of multi-line comment. Thanks to Jacob Beard for the report.
  - Fix use of uninitialized value in pattern match. Thanks to arlt for the
    report.