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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Ashutosh Bapat <[email protected]>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Add "format" target to make and ninja to run pgindent and pgperltidy
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:26:44 -0500
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Ashutosh Bapat <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This tries to make running formatting a lot easier for committers, but
>> primarily for new contributors.

> I generally like the idea. Since perltidy is not enforced regularly
> (like pgindent), running it usually ends up modifying files which are
> not part of the patch. So I avoid it if not necessary. Do you propose
> to make it optional?

The other obstacle is that not everybody will have the right version
of perltidy installed, but using some other version will create a
whole lot of extraneous noise.

On the whole I'd recommend not trying to automate the perltidy
step yet.  Cost/benefit is just not very good.

On the substance of the patch: I wonder whether we could make things
more reliable by using git metadata to figure out which .h and .c
files to point pgindent at.

			regards, tom lane

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