Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 3:30 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> No. I presume koel is using src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list,
> which has always been the "canonical" list but up to now we've
> been lazy about maintaining it. Part of the new regime is that
> typedefs.list should now be updated on-the-fly by patches that
> add new typedefs.

My workflow up until now has avoiding making updates to typedefs.list
in patches. I only update typedefs locally, for long enough to indent
my code. The final patch doesn't retain any typedefs.list changes.

> We should still compare against the buildfarm's list periodically;
> but I imagine that the primary result of that will be to remove
> no-longer-used typedefs from typedefs.list.

I believe that I came up with my current workflow due to the
difficulty of maintaining the typedef file itself. Random
platform/binutils implementation details created a lot of noise,
presumably because my setup wasn't exactly the same as Bruce's setup,
in whatever way. For example, the order of certain lines would change,
in a way that had nothing whatsoever to do with structs that my patch
added.

I guess that I can't do that anymore. Hopefully maintaining the
typedefs.list file isn't as inconvenient as it once seemed to me to
be.

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Peter Geoghegan