Re: [HACKERS] Preliminary results for proposed new pgindentimplementation

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 02:23:00PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, that's something we need to discuss.  I originally argued for
> back-patching the new rules, whatever they are (ie, run the new
> pgindent on the back branches whenever we've agreed that the dust
> has settled).  But I'm starting to realize that that's likely to
> be horrid for anyone who's carrying out-of-tree patches, as I know
> a lot of packagers do for instance.  We have to trade off our own
> inconvenience in making back-patches against inconvenience to
> people who are maintaining private patchsets.

Can't they sync up to just before our pgindent commit and run pgindent
on their own code base?

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