Hi, On 2023-01-21 17:20:35 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I don't feel wedded to every last detail of what pgindent does (and > especially not the bugs). But I think if the new tool is not a pretty > close match we'll be in for years of back-patching pain. We have made > changes in pgindent itself in the past, and the patching consequences > weren't *too* awful, but the changes weren't very big either.
Perhaps we could backpatch formatting changes in a way that doesn't inconvenience forks too much. One way to deal with such changes is to 1) revert the re-indent commits in $backbranch 2) merge $backbranch-with-revert into $forkbranch 3) re-indent $forkbranch After that future changes should be mergable again. Certainly doesn't do away with the pain entirely, but it does make it perhaps bearable Greetings, Andres Freund
