Re: CI: Add task that runs pgindent

Jelte Fennema-Nio <me@jeltef.nl>

From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <me@jeltef.nl>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-10-21T14:49:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 at 16:40, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
> > Conforming to indentation rules in v1 of a patchset isn't the most interesting
> > aspect of a submission, especially for WIP and POC style patches.
>
> I have a more concrete argument: sometimes, it's helpful to submit
> an un-pgindent'd patch because correct indentation will require
> reindenting a large amount of existing code (because of addition or
> removal of a layer of braces).  Showing the effects of that in a
> patch meant for review only makes the reviewer's life harder.
> So I think there is plenty of room for workflows where the committer
> is expected to reindent just before commit.

Interesting, but yeah that makes sense.

> That's not to say that it couldn't be helpful for CI to point out
> the need for indent.  It's just to say that the test mustn't get
> set up so that other tests don't run, or so that it looks like
> there is any severe problem.  That leads me to think it ought to be
> a separate task.

Makes sense. By having it be a separate job I can easily make the
cfbot and commitfest app report it as "yellow" instead of "red" if
this job fails.