Tom Lane wrote:
> What we need to consider right now is whether to include back branches
> in the existing practice of reindenting between development cycles.
> This is somewhat urgent because we already did HEAD, so we have already
> created a divergence from HEAD to 9.4 which is going to cause us pain
> one way or the other. (It's worth noting for example that Bruce's
> trial run of pgindent on 9.4 hit some of the code involved in the
> fsync-the-whole-data-directory patch, which means that whatever we decide
> to do about that is likely to stumble over pgindent diffs if we don't
> re-indent the back branches. So I'm not talking about potential pain
> in the vague future, I'm talking about this week.)
FWIW the multixact code is now slightly different between HEAD and
9.3/9.4, also. So if that needs further patches, they will be fun to
backpatch.
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