On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Right now we're really just speculating about how much pain there will
> be, on either end of this. So it'd be interesting for somebody who's
> carrying large out-of-tree patches (EDB? Citus?) to try the new
> pgindent version on a back branch and see how much of their patches no
> longer apply afterwards.
EDB is not continuously reapplying patches; we have branches into
which the upstream reindents would have to be merged. As a broad
statement, reindenting all of the back branches is surely going to
create some extra work for whoever has to do those merges, but if
that's what the community thinks is best, we will of course manage.
It's not *that* bad.
It would be slightly less annoying for us, I think, if the reindent
were done immediately after a minor-release rather than at some other
random point in time.
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Robert Haas
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