Re: [HACKERS] build of 7.2.1 on SCO Openserver and Unixware

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Nicolas Bazin <nbazin(at)ingenico(dot)com(dot)au>, Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] build of 7.2.1 on SCO Openserver and Unixware
Date: 2002-04-18 16:57:17
Message-ID: 13381.1019149037@sss.pgh.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers pgsql-patches

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Do we need this at all? Why not simply fix the expected files to remove
> the whitespace differences?

There shouldn't *be* any whitespace differences in a successful test.
The point of the -w switch is not to make any difference in a successful
test, it is to reduce the amount of irrelevant stuff printed in a failed
test. If you have one bogus output item that is wider than the correct
value, that can cause psql to reformat the display wider in all rows.
The point of using -w is to not show those other rows as changed.

regards, tom lane

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2002-04-18 17:00:37 Re: new food for the contrib/ directory
Previous Message Andreas Scherbaum 2002-04-18 16:43:58 Re: new food for the contrib/ directory

Browse pgsql-patches by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Nicolas Bazin 2002-04-18 22:53:59 Re: [HACKERS] build of 7.2.1 on SCO Openserver andUnixware
Previous Message Peter Eisentraut 2002-04-18 16:33:48 Re: [HACKERS] build of 7.2.1 on SCO Openserver and Unixware