Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> If it doesn't know how to rebuild it, aren't we going to be stuck in a
> catch-22 if we need to change it in certain ways? Since an old version
> of pg_bsd_indent would reject the patch that might include updating
> it. (And when it does, one should expect the push to take quite a long
> time, but given the infrequency I agree that part is probably not an
> issue)
Everyone who has proposed this has included a caveat that there must
be a way to override the check. Given that minimal expectation, it
shouldn't be too hard to deal with pg_bsd_indent-updating commits.
regards, tom lane