src/tools/pgindent/pgindent.man

pgindent will indent .c and .h files according to the coding standards of
the PostgreSQL project. It needs several things to run, and tries to locate
or build them if possible. They can also be specified via command line switches
or the environment.

In its simplest form, if all the required objects are installed, simply run
it without any parameters at the top of the source tree you want to process.

	pgindent

If you don't have all the requirements installed, pgindent will fetch and build
them for you, if you're in a PostgreSQL source tree:

	pgindent --build

If your pg_bsd_indent program is not installed in your path, you can specify
it by setting the environment variable INDENT, or PGINDENT, or by giving the
command line option --indent:

	pgindent --indent=/opt/extras/bsdindent

pgindent also needs a file containing a list of typedefs. This can be
specified using the PGTYPEDEFS environment variable, or via the command line
--typedefs option. If neither is used, it will look for it within the
current source tree, or in /usr/local/etc/typedefs.list.

If you want to indent a source tree other than the current working directory,
you can specify it via the --code-base command line option.

We don't want to indent certain files in the PostgreSQL source. pgindent
will honor a file containing a list of patterns of files to avoid. This
file can be specified using the --excludes command line option. If indenting
a PostgreSQL source tree, this option isn't necessary, as it will find the file
src/tools/pgindent/exclude_file_patterns.

Any non-option arguments are taken as the names of files to be indented. In this
case only these files will be changed, and nothing else will be touched. If the
first non-option argument is not a .c or .h file, it is treated as the name
of a typedefs file for legacy reasons, but this use is deprecated - use the
--typedefs option instead.