Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Jesse Zhang <sbjesse@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-01-24T19:04:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 09:54:57AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> As another example, the mechanisms we use to create the typedefs list
> in the first place are pretty squishy/leaky: they depend on which
> buildfarm animals are running the typedef-generation step, and on
> whether anything's broken lately in that code --- which happens on
> a fairly regular basis (eg [1]).  Maybe that could be improved,
> but I don't see an easy way to capture the set of system-defined
> typedefs that are in use on platforms other than your own.  I
> definitely do not want to go over to hand maintenance of that list.

As I now understand it, we would need to standardize on a typedef list
at the beginning of each major development cycle, and then only allow
additions, and the addition would have to include any pgindent affects
of the addition.

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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.