Re: Add "format" target to make and ninja to run pgindent and pgperltidy - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:
>
> This tries to make running formatting a lot easier for committers, but
> primarily for new contributors. You can not format the files by simply
> running one of the folowing:
>
> make format
> ninja -C build format
>

I generally like the idea. Since perltidy is not enforced regularly
(like pgindent), running it usually ends up modifying files which are
not part of the patch. So I avoid it if not necessary. Do you propose
to make it optional?

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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat