Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> However, if a test fails, it is quite likely that a whitespace-sensitive
> diff will produce many lines of uninteresting diff, because of psql's habit
> of justifying column output
Perhaps the regression tests should just do \pset format unaligned ?
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gr
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It appears we must not use the options for determining whether the test
> failed, only for creating the diff output. Or does anyone have a better
> idea?
AFAIK, there is no reason to ignore whitespace in determining whether a
test succeeded. However
On OpenBSD 3.4, the diff options -b and -w have the interesting feature
(actually listed as a bug) that they ignore whitespace for preparing the
diff, but the exit status will be 1 nonetheless, if the files are at all
different. This leads to several failures in the current regression
tests, becau
