Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

Hi,

On 2023-01-20 12:09:05 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jelte Fennema <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> writes:
> > To me a master branch that pgindent never complains about sounds
> > amazing! And I personally think rejection of unindented pushes and
> > cfbot complaining about unindented patches would be a very good thing,
> > because that seems to be the only solution that could achieve that.
>
> The core problem here is that requiring that would translate to
> requiring every code contributor to have a working copy of pg_bsd_indent.

Wouldn't just every committer suffice?

> Maybe that's not a huge lift, but it'd be YA obstacle to new contributors,
> and we don't need any more of those.
>
> Yeah, if we switched to some other tool maybe we could reduce the size
> of that problem. But as Bruce replied, we've not found another one that
> (a) can be coaxed to make output comparable to what we're accustomed to
> and (b) seems decently well maintained.

One question around this is how much change we'd accept. clang-format for
example is well maintained and can get somewhat close to our style - but
there are things that can't easily be approximated.

Greetings,

Andres Freund