Re: CI: Add task that runs pgindent

On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 at 16:40, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
> > Conforming to indentation rules in v1 of a patchset isn't the most interesting
> > aspect of a submission, especially for WIP and POC style patches.
>
> I have a more concrete argument: sometimes, it's helpful to submit
> an un-pgindent'd patch because correct indentation will require
> reindenting a large amount of existing code (because of addition or
> removal of a layer of braces). Showing the effects of that in a
> patch meant for review only makes the reviewer's life harder.
> So I think there is plenty of room for workflows where the committer
> is expected to reindent just before commit.

Interesting, but yeah that makes sense.

> That's not to say that it couldn't be helpful for CI to point out
> the need for indent. It's just to say that the test mustn't get
> set up so that other tests don't run, or so that it looks like
> there is any severe problem. That leads me to think it ought to be
> a separate task.

Makes sense. By having it be a separate job I can easily make the
cfbot and commitfest app report it as "yellow" instead of "red" if
this job fails.