More accurate title would be “The case against auto-formatting SQL”. It’s the “auto” part that’s relevant here.

These examples left me with two wishes:

1. Pattern matching
2. Functions

I’d rewrite the examples but they’re screenshots???

I agree with the article/author. I only have to share that the automatic output of pg_format has mostly been satisfying for me.

https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/pgformatter