Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 3:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> +1. We're not that far away from it being time to run pgindent/perltidy, >> so now would be a good time to consider whether we like a newer version's >> result better.
> For example, Debian ships with 20140328, which produces the attached diff. > I'm not sure if we want to go to whatever is a "common version on most > platforms" today, or just "whatever is latest" if we do upgrade. AFAICT > RHEL 7 seems to be on 20121207, RHEL 6 on 20090616. And in Ubuntu, 14.04 > has 20120701, 16.04 has 20140328, and current devel has 20140328. In > general there seems to be very little overlap there, except Debian and > Ubuntu covers the same versions.
> (Note that this diff is against HEAD -- it's possible a perltidy run with > the current version would also generate a diff, I have not compared them to > each other)
Yeah, perltidy 20090616 already produces a pretty substantial diff on HEAD; attached.
Ah yeah, if I apply that one first, the diff from using 20140328 is much smaller. Attached is that one, which means the difference between the two perltidy versions.