Re: compiling pg_bsd_indent

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: compiling pg_bsd_indent
Date: 2025-10-09 16:27:03
Message-ID: aOfiV3keyyK3JNub@momjian.us
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On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 06:12:59PM +0200, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2025-Oct-09, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Might be nice if we could just remove it. It was created by Tom Lane in
> > 2017.
>
> I think it would be a bad idea to lose the history there, so -1 on that
> from me. In particular, older branches (12 and back) require a version
> of pg_bsd_indent that would no longer be available. Do I use that
> often? Not really, but who knows. I'd rather have it there.
>
> Maybe we could make the obsolence more obvious, such as by making the
> Makefile emit a note about it.

Makes sense.

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