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Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>

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From: Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
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: 2023-04-21T07:58:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Now that the PG16 feature freeze happened I think it's time to bump
this thread again. As far as I remember everyone that responded (even
previously silent people) were themselves proponents of being more
strict around pgindent.

I think there's two things needed to actually start doing this:
1. We need to reindent the tree to create an indented baseline
2. We need some automation to complain about unindented code being committed

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. If that doesn't achieve 2 for some reason, or turns
out to have problems we can always change to a afterwards.

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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.