Re: Remove error message hints mentioning configure options - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Remove error message hints mentioning configure options
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Msg-id 3279011.1649339341@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Remove error message hints mentioning configure options  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> 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.

> +1

+1, those hints are from another era.

> 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.

Agreed, we have a better technology now for stub test results.  Come
to think of it, xml.sql really ought to be redone along the same lines.

            regards, tom lane



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