On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 08:45:00PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> 2. We could raise awareness of this issue by adding indent verification
> to CI testing. I hesitate to suggest that, though, for a couple of
> reasons:
> 2a. It seems fairly expensive, though I might be misjudging.
> 2b. It's often pretty handy to submit patches that aren't fully
> indent-clean; I have such a patch in flight right now at [1].
>
> 2b could be ameliorated by making the indent check be a separate
> test process that doesn't obscure the results of other testing.
I see an extra reason with not doing that: this increases the
difficulty when it comes to send and maintain patches to the lists and
newcomers would need to learn more tooling. I don't think that we
should make that more complicated for code-formatting reasons.
--
Michael
