Re: [HACKERS] Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christoph Berg
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default?
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Msg-id 20190215150519.GG10313@msg.df7cb.de
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default?  (Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Re: Andrew Gierth 2019-02-15 <874l95m8w7.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk>
> Also while we're tweaking regression test output, would it be possible
> to have some indicator of whether a test passed because a variant file
> in the resultmap was ignored in favor of the standard result?
> 
> The current system of silently ignoring the resultmap means that nobody
> ever notices when resultmap entries become obsolete....

By the same argument, it should always print which variant file was
used so determining which _N.out files are still in use is possible.

Christoph


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