Tom, all,
* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > I'd be fine with removing --verbose globally, as your patch does, but
> > there was some argument that we then would have long 'quiet' periods.
> > I haven't had a chance to go test if that's really the case yet though.
>
> I've been running it like this lately:
>
> make -s check-world -j4 PROVE_FLAGS='-j4 --quiet --nocolor --nocount'
>
> and it is still pretty noisy ;-). The only place where it sits for
> more than a couple of seconds without printing anything is at the very
> start, which I believe to be the initial "make temp-install" step,
> which would be unaffected by prove verbosity anyway.
>
> So I'd be +1 for just removing --verbose by default. Anybody who really
> wants it can put it back via PROVE_FLAGS.
Yeah, I'm feeling the same way on this, and it'd reduce the size of the
logs on the buildfarm too, which I believe is a good thing.
Unless people wish to object, I'll use Michael's patch to remove
--verbose from the top level tomorrow.
Thanks!
Stephen
