On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 09:54:57AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> As another example, the mechanisms we use to create the typedefs list
> in the first place are pretty squishy/leaky: they depend on which
> buildfarm animals are running the typedef-generation step, and on
> whether anything's broken lately in that code --- which happens on
> a fairly regular basis (eg [1]). Maybe that could be improved,
> but I don't see an easy way to capture the set of system-defined
> typedefs that are in use on platforms other than your own. I
> definitely do not want to go over to hand maintenance of that list.
As I now understand it, we would need to standardize on a typedef list
at the beginning of each major development cycle, and then only allow
additions, and the addition would have to include any pgindent affects
of the addition.
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