Re: What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> Woulnd't it be enough to report the exist status if a test fails, instead of
>> requiring a certain exit status for success?
>
> What I have it doing is reporting the exit status if not zero, but it's
> only an annotation on the short-form output; it doesn't control whether
> the test is considered to have succeeded or not. I'm not very happy
> with that because a crash after all the expected output has been
> produced would not result in a report of failure --- and we have seen
> problems with psql crashing at exit, so this isn't an academic point.

It might be a bit weird but pg_regress could stick a message in the output
file before it does the comparison with the expected results.

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