Re: Coverage (lcov) failing with inconsistent error in versions 2.x - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 5:14 AM Jonathan Gonzalez V.
<jonathan.abdiel@gmail.com> wrote:
> These failure has already been discussed here[0], but this is a
> patch on the code rather than add an exception.

Thanks for the patch!

I'm not sure we should get on the treadmill of catering to lcov, when
I look at the huge number of errors its 2.x line now throws for
widely-used compilers and coding styles. (Right now my ignore_errors
setting is up to six categories, I think. Which is unfortunate, but
its signal-to-noise ratio is just not good right now. Just yesterday I
had to patch out an error in 2.4 that was preventing me from running
genhtml.)

--Jacob