On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

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> On 21 Dec. 2017 22:42, "Tom Lane" <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
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> Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:
> > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com>
> > wrote:
> >>> The pg_indent on www is outdated, and doesn't understand --version .
> >>> https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/dev/
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> > Is there a reason to keep it at all if its obsolete, or should we just
> > delete it?
>
> The only reason I can think of why someone might still want that version
> is if they're doing hacking on a pre-v10 branch and would like to indent
> accordingly.  If we have someplace for historical versions, I'd suggest
> moving this tarball to there, and replacing it with a README that says
> "go here for pre-v10 pgindent, or there for modern versions".
>
>
> Add it as a branch in the git repo and backpatch the pgindent README?
>
> Hardly seems worth the hassle. It's not like back patches need tons of
> worry about pgindent etc anyway.
>

That seems way overkill, yeah.

We don't have a place for historic versions of this stuff. We have the
archive directory but that's specifically a tarball of the last cvs stuff.

I think a simple README is the way to go.

I've cooked together something simple and pushed it. Please review and
suggest changes.

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