Re: The pg_indent on on ftp is outdated

On 28 December 2017 at 23:59, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

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> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
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>> On 21 Dec. 2017 22:42, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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>> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
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>> >>> The pg_indent on www is outdated, and doesn't understand --version .
>> >>> https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/dev/
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>> > Is there a reason to keep it at all if its obsolete, or should we just
>> > delete it?
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>> The only reason I can think of why someone might still want that version
>> is if they're doing hacking on a pre-v10 branch and would like to indent
>> accordingly. If we have someplace for historical versions, I'd suggest
>> moving this tarball to there, and replacing it with a README that says
>> "go here for pre-v10 pgindent, or there for modern versions".
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>> Add it as a branch in the git repo and backpatch the pgindent README?
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>> Hardly seems worth the hassle. It's not like back patches need tons of
>> worry about pgindent etc anyway.
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> That seems way overkill, yeah.
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> We don't have a place for historic versions of this stuff. We have the
> archive directory but that's specifically a tarball of the last cvs stuff.
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> I think a simple README is the way to go.
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> I've cooked together something simple and pushed it. Please review and
> suggest changes.
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Perfect. Thanks!

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