Re: potentially missed pgindent in REL_19_STABLE

Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 5:33 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>> will there would be a tree-wide
>> pgindent run before tagging REL_19_0?

> That's a good question. src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES mentions runs before
> beta and before branching, but I couldn't find anything about a final
> run before .0.

We haven't done that in the past, and in general I don't think
it's policy to expect full pgindent cleanliness in back branches.
One reason for that is that back-patches typically retain the
master-branch patch's formatting, even if an older version of
pgindent would have done something different with some constructs.

For instance, commit b518ba4af affected a lot of places, making it
hard to say which handling of "..." is right for pre-v19. So now
you'd likely get diffs from a tree-wide reindent in v18 and before
no matter which pgindent version you used.

I have no objection to applying the proposed patch, though.
At this point there's still value in avoiding unnecessary
diffs between v19 and v20.

regards, tom lane