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

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default?
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Msg-id 300071a2-a27f-36fd-0ce6-c6a5263f789e@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to [HACKERS] Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default?  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default?  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: [HACKERS] Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 4/6/17 18:31, Andres Freund wrote:
> I personally have PG_REGRESS_DIFF_OPTS set to -dU10, but that doesn't
> help much analyzing buildfarm output.
> 
> Therefore I propose changing the defaults in pg_regress.c.

I think one problem is that diff -u is not as portable as diff -c.  For
example, the HP-UX 11 man page of diff doesn't list it.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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