Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> That's beside the point. The point is that I'm obligated to keep
> typedef.list up to date in general, a task that is made significantly
> harder by random objdump implementation details. And I probably need
> to do this not just once per commit, but several times, since in
> practice I need to defensively run and rerun pgindent as the patch is
> tweaked.
Hmm, I've not found it that hard to manage the typedefs list.
If I run pgindent and it adds weird spacing around uses of a new
typedef name, I go "oh, I better add that to the list" and do so.
End of problem. There's not a requirement that you remove disused
typedef names, nor that you alphabetize perfectly. I'm content
to update those sorts of details from the buildfarm's list once a
year or so.
This does assume that you inspect pgindent's changes rather than
just accepting them blindly --- but as I commented upthread, the
tool really requires that anyway.
regards, tom lane