Re: [HACKERS] Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default?

From: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
To: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default?
Date: 2019-02-15 15:05:19
Message-ID: 20190215150519.GG10313@msg.df7cb.de
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Re: Andrew Gierth 2019-02-15 <874l95m8w7(dot)fsf(at)news-spur(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
> Also while we're tweaking regression test output, would it be possible
> to have some indicator of whether a test passed because a variant file
> in the resultmap was ignored in favor of the standard result?
>
> The current system of silently ignoring the resultmap means that nobody
> ever notices when resultmap entries become obsolete....

By the same argument, it should always print which variant file was
used so determining which _N.out files are still in use is possible.

Christoph

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