Re: ignore $PostgreSQL lines in regression tests?

* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > Recently while adding $PostgreSQL markers to a bunch of .c and .h files
> > I ran into trouble with the ecpg regression tests and had to revert the
> > change for a handful of files. However, it occurred to me that we could
> > have pg_regress tell diff to ignore such lines, by passing it the
> > arguments "-I '\$PostgreSQL:' ", which would tell it to ignore
> > additions or deletions of lines matching that regex.
>
> > Would this be a good thing to do?
>
> I'm inclined to think not. It's easy to think of scenarios where such
> a switch would mask errors.

I tend to agree with this, though if people decide they want it, you
could almost certainly tighten up the regexp some to reduce the chance
of it masking things (eg: I assume a starting anchor ('^') would be
correct here, and you could almost certainly add the rest of the columns
which are included in the $Id$ format using appropriately-typed
wildcards, etc...).

Thanks,

Stephen