Jo.
On 2022-04-07 09:19:14 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I think these hints are usually not useful since users will use packaged
> distributions and won't be interested in rebuilding their installation from
> source. Also, we have only used these kinds of hints for some features and
> in some places, not consistently throughout. And of course there are build
> systems that don't use configure. The information "needs to be built with
> XXX" or "was not built with XXX" should be enough for those interested in
> actually changing their build configuration to figure out what to do.
+1
> diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/compression_1.out b/src/test/regress/expected/compression_1.out
> index 1ce2962d55..c0a47646eb 100644
> --- a/src/test/regress/expected/compression_1.out
> +++ b/src/test/regress/expected/compression_1.out
The xml stuff is at least old, but compression_1 isn't. I think we've tried to
avoid long alternative output files where everything fails due to being
unsupported for a while now? Robert, Dilip? See uses of :skip_test in various
tests.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
