Sunday, May 18, 2008

Re: [HACKERS] ignore $PostgreSQL lines in regression tests?

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Recently while adding $PostgreSQL markers to a bunch of .c and .h files
> I ran into trouble with the ecpg regression tests and had to revert the
> change for a handful of files. However, it occurred to me that we could
> have pg_regress tell diff to ignore such lines, by passing it the
> arguments "-I '\$PostgreSQL:' ", which would tell it to ignore
> additions or deletions of lines matching that regex.

> Would this be a good thing to do?

I'm inclined to think not. It's easy to think of scenarios where such
a switch would mask errors.

regards, tom lane

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