Re: installcheck failing on psql_crosstab

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: installcheck failing on psql_crosstab
Date: 2016-06-06 14:06:10
Message-ID: 20160606140610.GA386184@alvherre.pgsql
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Michael Paquier wrote:

> I know that we guarantee that make installcheck may not work on many
> target servers as a lot of tests are very GUC-sensitive, but this
> looks a bit oversensitive to me, especially knowing that it is the
> only diff generated by the whole test suite.
> Don't you think that those tests could be made more portable?

Not sure about that. I think the only way to change this would be to
remove those particular tests completely, and I don't think that's a
good tradeoff. If somebody can show a way to avoid the problem without
removing those tests for multiline functionality, I'm all ears.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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