Re: Run pgindent now?

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 01:28:16PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> What we need to consider right now is whether to include back branches
> in the existing practice of reindenting between development cycles.
> This is somewhat urgent because we already did HEAD, so we have already
> created a divergence from HEAD to 9.4 which is going to cause us pain
> one way or the other.  (It's worth noting for example that Bruce's
> trial run of pgindent on 9.4 hit some of the code involved in the
> fsync-the-whole-data-directory patch, which means that whatever we decide
> to do about that is likely to stumble over pgindent diffs if we don't
> re-indent the back branches.  So I'm not talking about potential pain
> in the vague future, I'm talking about this week.)

One issue I discussed is doing a pgindent-only release so users doing a
diff would not have pgindent diffs mixed with fixes.  If we are going to
do an fsync-fix-only release soon, adding pgindent diffs to that would
be as minimal a mixing as we could hope for.

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