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Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Cc: "shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com" <shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Jesse Zhang <sbjesse@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Date: 2023-04-22T11:42:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2023-04-22 Sa 04:50, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 09:58:17AM +0200, Jelte Fennema wrote:
>> For 2 the upstream thread listed two approaches:
>> a. Install a pre-receive git hook on the git server that rejects
>> pushes to master that are not indented
>> b. Add a test suite that checks if the code is correctly indented, so
>> the build farm would complain about it. (Suggested by Peter E)
>>
>> I think both a and b would work to achieve 2. But as Peter E said, b
>> indeed sounds like less of a divergence of the status quo. So my vote
>> would be for b.
> FWIW, I think that there is value for both of them.  Anyway, isn't 'a'
> exactly the same as 'b' in design?  Both require a build of
> pg_bsd_indent, meaning that 'a' would also need to run an equivalent
> of the regression test suite, but it would be actually costly
> especially if pg_bsd_indent itself is patched.  I think that getting
> more noisy on this matter with 'b' would be enough, but as an extra
> PG_TEST_EXTRA for committers to set.
>
> Such a test suite would need a dependency to the 'git' command itself,
> which is not something that could be safely run in a release tarball,
> in any case.


Perhaps we should start with a buildfarm module, which would run 
pg_indent --show-diff. That would only need to run on one animal, so a 
failure wouldn't send the whole buildfarm red. This would be pretty easy 
to do.


cheers


andrew

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  1. Fix comment from commit 22655aa231.

  2. Add a few recent commits to .git-blame-ignore-revs.

  3. Pre-beta2 mechanical code beautification.

  4. Pre-beta mechanical code beautification.

  5. Make agreed-on updates in perltidy options.

  6. Remove obsolete pgindent options --code-base and --build

  7. Integrate pg_bsd_indent into our build/test infrastructure.

  8. Sync pg_bsd_indent's copyright notices with Postgres practice.

  9. Import pg_bsd_indent sources.

  10. pgindent: filter files for the --commit option

  11. pgindent: more ways to find files to indent

  12. Fix pgindent --show-diff option.

  13. Add non-destructive modes to pgindent

  14. Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.