Re: installcheck failing on psql_crosstab - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: installcheck failing on psql_crosstab
Date
Msg-id 20160606140610.GA386184@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to installcheck failing on psql_crosstab  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: installcheck failing on psql_crosstab  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Michael Paquier wrote:

> I know that we guarantee that make installcheck may not work on many
> target servers as a lot of tests are very GUC-sensitive, but this
> looks a bit oversensitive to me, especially knowing that it is the
> only diff generated by the whole test suite.
> Don't you think that those tests could be made more portable?

Not sure about that.  I think the only way to change this would be to
remove those particular tests completely, and I don't think that's a
good tradeoff.  If somebody can show a way to avoid the problem without
removing those tests for multiline functionality, I'm all ears.

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