Re: ignore $PostgreSQL lines in regression tests?

Tom Lane 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.
>
>
>

OK.

cheers

andrew