Small improvement for pretty-printing in paste.depesz.com

As you maybe know, some time ago I made paste service, mostly to use for queries, or related text to share on IRC.

One part of it is that it also has pretty printer of provided queries.

Recently I realized that in case of complex join conditions, the output is, well, sub-optimal. For example:

SELECT
    t1.a,
    t2.b,
    t3.c
FROM
    table_1 AS t1
    JOIN table_2 AS t2 ON t1.x = t2.x AND
    t1.y = t2.y AND
    t1.z = t2.z
    LEFT JOIN table_3 AS t3 ON t1.f = t3.f AND
    t2.g = t3.g
WHERE
    t1.v = 1 AND
    t2.t = 'x' AND
    t3.m < 123

Specifically the problem (for me) is bad indentation of join conditions (aside from first).

Anyway – as of now, the same query will be pretty-printed as:

SELECT
    t1.a,
    t2.b,
    t3.c
FROM
    table_1 AS t1
    JOIN table_2 AS t2 ON t1.x = t2.x
        AND t1.y = t2.y
        AND t1.z = t2.z
    LEFT JOIN table_3 AS t3 ON t1.f = t3.f
        AND t2.g = t3.g
WHERE
    t1.v = 1
    AND t2.t = 'x'
    AND t3.m < 123

Also, as a reminder – you can use this pretty printer from command line or some tools, without storing anything on paste.depesz.com site – simply use script that I described earlier.

Hope you'll find it useful.

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