Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 2:25 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> We could a test that fails when there's some mis-indented code. That seems
>> like it might catch things earlier?

+1 for including this in CI tests

> It definitely would. That would go a long way towards addressing my
> concerns. But I suspect that that would run into problems that stem
> from the fact that the buildfarm is testing something that isn't all
> that simple. Don't typedefs need to be downloaded from some other
> blessed buildfarm animal?

No.  I presume koel is using src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list,
which has always been the "canonical" list but up to now we've
been lazy about maintaining it.  Part of the new regime is that
typedefs.list should now be updated on-the-fly by patches that
add new typedefs.

We should still compare against the buildfarm's list periodically;
but I imagine that the primary result of that will be to remove
no-longer-used typedefs from typedefs.list.

            regards, tom lane