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* [PATCH v1 1/1] initdb: Pad rewritten GUC lines with spaces, not tabs.
@ 2026-08-30 16:41  Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>
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From: Nathan Bossart @ 2026-08-30 16:41 UTC (permalink / raw)

Commit f63ae72bbc converted postgresql.conf.sample to spaces so
that it lines up at any tab width, but replace_guc_value() still
pads with tabs when it re-aligns the trailing comment of a setting
it rewrites.  The postgresql.conf that initdb generates therefore
mixes the two.

To fix, pad with spaces.  While at it, simplify the calculation of
the original comment column: with no tabs left in the sample file
or in the lines we write out in its place, the de-tab-ifying loop
is only ever counting bytes, so have it count bytes directly.

Oversight in commit f63ae72bbc.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aReNUKdMgKxLqmq7%40nathan
Backpatch-through: 19
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 src/bin/initdb/initdb.c | 31 +++++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

inline patch 1: src/bin/initdb/initdb.c (+5/-26 lines) download inline-1.patchdiff --git a/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c b/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c index b3d496372ad..86d42a98a27 100644 --- a/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c +++ b/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c @@ -587,37 +587,16 @@ replace_guc_value(char **lines, const char *guc_name, const char *guc_value, { /* * We try to preserve original indentation, which is tedious. - * oldindent and newindent are measured in de-tab-ified columns. */ - const char *ptr; - int oldindent = 0; - int newindent; + int oldindent = (int) (where - lines[i]); + int newindent = newline->len; - for (ptr = lines[i]; ptr < where; ptr++) - { - if (*ptr == '\t') - oldindent += 8 - (oldindent % 8); - else - oldindent++; - } - /* ignore the possibility of tabs in guc_value */ - newindent = newline->len; - /* append appropriate tabs and spaces, forcing at least one */ + /* append appropriate spaces, forcing at least one */ oldindent = Max(oldindent, newindent + 1); while (newindent < oldindent) { - int newindent_if_tab = newindent + 8 - (newindent % 8); - - if (newindent_if_tab <= oldindent) - { - appendPQExpBufferChar(newline, '\t'); - newindent = newindent_if_tab; - } - else - { - appendPQExpBufferChar(newline, ' '); - newindent++; - } + appendPQExpBufferChar(newline, ' '); + newindent++; } /* and finally append the old comment */ appendPQExpBufferStr(newline, where); -- 2.55.0
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