Hi!

I've ran pdindent on the whole Postgres and it'd changed
an awful lot of source files. Won't it create a lot of merge conflicts?

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 8:48 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org>
wrote:

> On 2023-Jan-23, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > 1. [...] So now I think that we should
> > stick to the convention that it's on the user to install
> > pg_bsd_indent somewhere in their PATH; all we'll be doing with
> > this change is eliminating the step of fetching pg_bsd_indent's
> > source files from somewhere else.
>
> +1
>
> > 2. Given #1, it'll be prudent to continue having pgindent
> > double-check that pg_bsd_indent reports a specific version
> > number.  We could imagine starting to use the main Postgres
> > version number for that, but I'm inclined to continue with
> > its existing numbering series.
>
> +1
>
> > 3. If we do nothing special, the first mass reindentation is
> > going to reformat the pg_bsd_indent sources per PG style,
> > which is ... er ... not the way they look now.  Do we want
> > to accept that outcome, or take steps to prevent pgindent
> > from processing pg_bsd_indent?  I have a feeling that manual
> > cleanup would be necessary if we let such reindentation
> > happen, but I haven't experimented.
>
> Hmm, initially it must just be easier to have an exception so that
> pg_bsd_indent itself isn't indented.
>
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