On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 03:25:15PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I seem to recall a proposal that the best fix is to not use tabs
> at all in postgresql.conf.sample. That seems like a good way out
> to me. I think we could fix .gitattributes so that "git diff --check"
> would verify no tabs, but I've not looked into details.
I don't see a way in .gitattributes to check for _any_ tabs in a file, just
for beginning-of-line indentation with tabs. But it's easy enough to add a
check in the TAP test.
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nathan