pg_indent instructions

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:

The README for pg_indent says:

    ./configure     # "make" will not work in an unconfigured tree
    cd src/include/catalog
    make reformat-dat-files
    cd ../../..

This looks like a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

I did this, which amounts to the same thing and is faster:

    cd src/include/catalog
    perl ./reformat_dat_file.pl --output . ./pg_*.dat
    cd ../../..

True, that saves having to do a configure run, but it also embeds
some assumptions that personally I could do without --- mainly
about which perl you want to use. In any case, configure is
pretty quick as long as you've got it set up to use a cache file.

One thing we should do, perhaps, is remove the "cd" steps in
favor of recommending

make -C src/include/catalog reformat-dat-files

regards, tom lane