Re: RULE regression test fragility?

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Mike Blackwell <mike(dot)blackwell(at)rrd(dot)com>, PgHacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RULE regression test fragility?
Date: 2013-10-24 16:53:48
Message-ID: 20131024165348.GB18793@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2013-10-24 09:22:52 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > FWIW, I've repeatedly now thought that it'd make maintaining/updating
> > patches easier if we switched that query into unaligned tuple only (\a
> > \t) mode. That would remove the frequent conflicts on the row count and
> > widespread changes due to changed alignment.
> > Alternatively we could just wrap the query in \copy ... CSV.
>
> Hm ... yeah, it would be a good thing if changes in one view didn't so
> frequently have ripple effects to the whole output. Not sure which
> format is best for that though.

Something like the attached maybe?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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