Re: Reduce maintenance burden of alternative output files with \if \quit

Hi,

On 2018-11-07 08:21:09 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 05/11/2018 20:54, Andres Freund wrote:
> > What mechanism are you referring to? Expected files and resultmap don't
> > really fit that bill?
>
> We can add test files on the pg_regress command line based on makefile
> conditionals.

But we don't...

> >> If it gets to complicated to maintain, then we can also split files.
> >> The collation tests are split like that.
> >
> >> What specific cases do you have in mind?
> >
> > I find both collation and xml good cases where it'd be good not to have
> > an exhaustive alternative file. I mean, we currently don't even run the
> > icu collation tests by default - and the above trick would make it
> > fairly easy to automatically skip the test exactly when the database
> > encoding makes that impractical?
>
> The issue with the collation tests is different. They need a database
> with UTF8 encoding, which we cannot guarantee in the installcheck case.
> Otherwise we could run them automatically with a makefile conditional.
> (Early versions of the ICU patch did that, IIRC.)

But isn't that precisely addressable with my proposed approach? I'll
send a patch.

Greetings,

Andres Freund