Re: Add "format" target to make and ninja to run pgindent and pgperltidy

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add "format" target to make and ninja to run pgindent and pgperltidy
Date: 2026-03-13 10:02:47
Message-ID: 475CE843-FEFE-40E0-9341-3D5502D1F51C@yesql.se
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> On 13 Mar 2026, at 09:29, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> wrote:

> Afaict the primary reason that pg_bsd_indent is run on every commit, but
> perltidy is not, is that the later is currently much more annoying to run.

The primary reason thus far has been that pgperltidy requires a specific
version of perltidy, no other version is accepted. Imposing the burden of
installing that on a greater subset of people than a subset of committers
didn't seem palatable.

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Daniel Gustafsson

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