Re: Show backtrace when tap tests fail

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Show backtrace when tap tests fail
Date: 2017-09-19 21:21:13
Message-ID: 20170919212113.r6b3czqlkalhsudo@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2017-09-19 17:15:21 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > On 2017-09-19 21:37:26 +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> >> Devel::Confess is more thorough, so +1 on that.
>
> > Or just try Devel::Confess first, and if the require fails, go to
> > Carp::always.
>
> Meh --- Carp::Always isn't standard either, so I think this is just extra
> complication with little value-add. Let's just do the Devel::Confess
> incantation as Dagfinn has it.

Has ~25 times the installation base on debian tho...

https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=libdevel-confess-perl (13)
vs
https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=libcarp-always-perl (300)

(note this is an opt-in program)

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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