Formatter gives up when the query is too large?

I had a query like 
where thisColumn in (1,2,.3.... 
which had thousands of numbers in the array.  besides this was likely a stupid sql... the formatter gave up on it and returned nothing.  Is there some kind of workaround or maybe youre aware of the largest query that it can handle, i'll just check for that, before i try to get formatter to work on it.

thanks,
dc
