Re: TAP output format in pg_regress

Hi,

On 2022-06-29 21:50:45 +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> @@ -279,8 +648,7 @@ stop_postmaster(void)
> r = system(buf);
> if (r != 0)
> {
> - fprintf(stderr, _("\n%s: could not stop postmaster: exit code was %d\n"),
> - progname, r);
> + pg_log_error("could not stop postmaster: exit code was %d", r);
> _exit(2); /* not exit(), that could be recursive */
> }

There's a lot of stuff like this. Perhaps worth doing separately? I'm not sure
I unerstand where you used bail and where not. I assume it's mostly arund use
uf _exit() vs exit()?

> + test_status_ok(tests[i]);
>
> if (statuses[i] != 0)
> log_child_failure(statuses[i]);
>
> INSTR_TIME_SUBTRACT(stoptimes[i], starttimes[i]);
> - status(_(" %8.0f ms"), INSTR_TIME_GET_MILLISEC(stoptimes[i]));
> + runtime(tests[i], INSTR_TIME_GET_MILLISEC(stoptimes[i]));

Based on the discussion downthread, let's just always compute this and display
it even in the tap format?

Greetings,

Andres Freund