Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 7:47 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I'm not in favor of unsupervised pgindent runs, really.  It can do a lot
> of damage to code that was written without thinking about it --- in
> particular, it'll make a hash of comment blocks that were manually
> formatted and not protected with dashes.

No committer should be committing code without thinking about
pgindent. If some are, they need to up their game.

I am not sure whether weekly or after-every-commit pgindent runs is a
good idea, but I think we should try to do it once a month or so. It's
too annoying otherwise. I could go either way on the question of
automation.

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