On Mon, Jan 20, 2025, at 7:49 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > "Euler Taveira" <eu...@eulerto.com> writes: > > It is kind of annoying to keep version 20230309 around to run perltidy. Do > > we > > have any other alternatives? > > As it says in src/tools/pgindent/README: > > 2) Install perltidy. Please be sure it is version 20230309 (older and newer > versions make different formatting choices, and we want consistency). > > I don't think anyone is especially wedded to 20230309 in particular, > but we don't want different developers using different versions and > coming out with different results. The whole point of this effort > is to standardize code layout as best we can, so that would be > counterproductive.
I can live with that. > Do you have a strong argument for switching to some other specific > version of perltidy? > I don't. Let's see if the Dagfinn's patch will maintain more stable formatting over the years. I tested in a previous version (20220613) after applying the patch and it didn't suggest changes. -- Euler Taveira EDB https://www.enterprisedb.com/
