Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>, "shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com" <shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, 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: 2023-10-17T02:57:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 08:45:00PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> 2. We could raise awareness of this issue by adding indent verification
> to CI testing.  I hesitate to suggest that, though, for a couple of
> reasons:
>    2a. It seems fairly expensive, though I might be misjudging.
>    2b. It's often pretty handy to submit patches that aren't fully
>    indent-clean; I have such a patch in flight right now at [1].
> 
> 2b could be ameliorated by making the indent check be a separate
> test process that doesn't obscure the results of other testing.

I see an extra reason with not doing that: this increases the
difficulty when it comes to send and maintain patches to the lists and 
newcomers would need to learn more tooling.  I don't think that we
should make that more complicated for code-formatting reasons.
--
Michael

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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.