Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)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