Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
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Subject: Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner
Date: 2023-10-17 16:16:55
Message-ID: 2817120.1697559415@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> writes:
> That's beside the point. The point is that I'm obligated to keep
> typedef.list up to date in general, a task that is made significantly
> harder by random objdump implementation details. And I probably need
> to do this not just once per commit, but several times, since in
> practice I need to defensively run and rerun pgindent as the patch is
> tweaked.

Hmm, I've not found it that hard to manage the typedefs list.
If I run pgindent and it adds weird spacing around uses of a new
typedef name, I go "oh, I better add that to the list" and do so.
End of problem. There's not a requirement that you remove disused
typedef names, nor that you alphabetize perfectly. I'm content
to update those sorts of details from the buildfarm's list once a
year or so.

This does assume that you inspect pgindent's changes rather than
just accepting them blindly --- but as I commented upthread, the
tool really requires that anyway.

regards, tom lane

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