diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ee28da6..e4b7ac3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Changes
 
 * 2.5.next in progress
-  * Review metadata -> SQL logic?
   * Address [#515](https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql/issues/515) in part by quoting entities that start with a digit but are otherwise alphanumeric. Note that entities that are all digits (optionally including underscores) will still not be quoted as in previous releases.
+  * Address [#513](https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql/issues/513) by ignoring `:file`, `:line`, `:column`, `:end-line`, and `:end-column` metadata keys and providing an `:ignored-metadata` option to allow additional keys to be ignored.
 
 * 2.5.1091 -- 2023-10-28
   * Address [#512](https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql/issues/512) by adding support for subqueries in the `:array` special syntax (for BigQuery and PostgreSQL). This also adds support for metadata on the `:select` value to produce `AS STRUCT` or `DISTINCT`.
diff --git a/doc/clause-reference.md b/doc/clause-reference.md
index 8a5a20a..5796972 100644
--- a/doc/clause-reference.md
+++ b/doc/clause-reference.md
@@ -526,6 +526,11 @@ user=> (sql/format {:select ^{:as :struct} [:id :name] :from :table})
 ["SELECT AS STRUCT id, name FROM table"]
 ```
 
+As of 2.5.next, HoneySQL ignores the following metadata: `:file`, `:line`,
+`:column`, `:end-line`, and `:end-column` (2.5.1091 only ignored `:line`
+and `:column`). You can ask HoneySQL to ignore other metadata by specifying
+the `:ignored-metadata` option to `honey.sql/format`.
+
 > Google BigQuery support: to provide `SELECT * EXCEPT ..` and `SELECT * REPLACE ..` syntax, HoneySQL supports a vector starting with `:*` or the symbol `*` followed by except columns and/or replace expressions as columns:
 
 ```clojure
diff --git a/doc/options.md b/doc/options.md
index c48b2fb..dd213ea 100644
--- a/doc/options.md
+++ b/doc/options.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ All options may be omitted. The default behavior of each option is described in
 * `:cache` -- an atom containing a [clojure.core.cache](https://github.com/clojure/core.cache) cache used to cache generated SQL; the default behavior is to generate SQL on each call to `format`,
 * `:checking` -- `:none` (default), `:basic`, or `:strict` to control the amount of lint-like checking that HoneySQL performs,
 * `:dialect` -- a keyword that identifies a dialect to be used for this specific call to `format`; the default is to use what was specified in `set-dialect!` or `:ansi` if no other dialect has been set,
+* `:ignored-metadata` -- a sequence of metadata keys that should be ignored when formatting (in addition to `:file`, `:line`, `:column`, `:end-line` and `:end-column` which are always ignored); the default is `[]` -- no additional metadata is ignored (since 2.5.next),
 * `:inline` -- a Boolean indicating whether or not to inline parameter values, rather than use `?` placeholders and a sequence of parameter values; the default is `false` -- values are not inlined,
 * `:numbered` -- a Boolean indicating whether to generate numbered placeholders in the generated SQL (`$1`, `$2`, etc) or positional placeholders (`?`); the default is `false` (positional placeholders); this option was added in 2.4.962,
 * `:params` -- a hash map providing values for named parameters, identified by names (keywords or symbols) that start with `?` in the DSL; the default is that any such named parameters will have `nil` values,
diff --git a/src/honey/sql.cljc b/src/honey/sql.cljc
index aefe7ce..7b1343f 100644
--- a/src/honey/sql.cljc
+++ b/src/honey/sql.cljc
@@ -138,6 +138,10 @@
 ;; in entities; if someone complains about this check, an option
 ;; can be added to format to turn this on:
 (def ^:private ^:dynamic *allow-suspicious-entities* false)
+;; the following metadata is ignored in formatted by default:
+;; :file, :line, :column, :end-line, and :end-column
+;; this dynamic var can be used to add more metadata to ignore:
+(def ^:private ^:dynamic *ignored-metadata* [])
 ;; "linting" mode (:none, :basic, :strict):
 (def ^:private ^:dynamic *checking* @default-checking)
 ;; the current DSL hash map being formatted (for clause-body / contains-clause?):
@@ -684,14 +688,21 @@
                                (conj acc k)
                                (conj acc k v)))
                            []
-                           (dissoc data ; remove the somewhat "standard" metadata:
-                                   :line :column :file
-                                   :end-line :end-column))]
+                           (reduce dissoc
+                                   data
+                                   (into [; remove the somewhat "standard" metadata:
+                                          :line :column :file
+                                          :end-line :end-column]
+                                         *ignored-metadata*)))]
       (when (seq items)
         (str/join " " (mapv sql-kw items))))))
 
 (comment
   (format-meta ^{:foo true :bar :baz} [])
+
+  (binding [*ignored-metadata* [:bar]]
+    (format-meta ^{:foo true :bar :baz} []))
+
   (format-meta [])
   )
 
@@ -2025,6 +2036,9 @@
                                   (f @base-clause-order)
                                   @current-clause-order)
                                 @current-clause-order)
+               *ignored-metadata* (if (contains? opts :ignored-metadata)
+                                    (:ignored-metadata opts)
+                                    [])
                *inline*  (cond (contains? opts :inline)
                                (:inline opts)
                                (= :nrql (:dialect dialect))