Re: compiling pg_bsd_indent

On Thu, Oct  9, 2025 at 06:12:59PM +0200, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2025-Oct-09, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Might be nice if we could just remove it.  It was created by Tom Lane in
> > 2017.
> 
> I think it would be a bad idea to lose the history there, so -1 on that
> from me.  In particular, older branches (12 and back) require a version
> of pg_bsd_indent that would no longer be available.  Do I use that
> often?  Not really, but who knows.  I'd rather have it there.
> 
> Maybe we could make the obsolence more obvious, such as by making the
> Makefile emit a note about it.

Makes sense.

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