Hi, On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 12:31:07PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Justin Pryzby <pry...@telsasoft.com> writes: > > I think the current behavior of the regression test SQL scripts is exactly > > the > > opposite of what's desirable for almost all other scripts. The attached > > makes > > ON_ERROR_STOP the default, and runs the regression tests with > > ON_ERROR_STOP=0. > > > Is it viable to consider changing this ? > > I don't think so. The number of scripts you will break is far greater > than the number whose behavior will be improved, because people who > wanted this behavior will already be selecting it. Maybe this wasn't > the greatest choice of default, but it's about twenty years too late > to change it. > > I'd also note that I see a fairly direct parallel to "set -e" in > shell scripts, which is likewise not the default. > > We could consider documentation changes to make this issue > more visible, perhaps. Not sure what would be a good place.
I'm marking the CF entry as returned with feedback as it's been a few weeks without proposal for documentation change.
