| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrey Lepikhov <a(dot)lepikhov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Paul Ramsey <pramsey(at)cleverelephant(dot)ca> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] random_normal function |
| Date: | 2025-10-04 17:47:53 |
| Message-ID: | 1528818.1759600073@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> writes:
> Hello old thread.
> On Jan 19, 2023, at 01:01, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I think "ignore:" was a kluge we put in twenty-plus years ago when our
>> testing standards were a lot lower, and it's way past time we got
>> rid of it.
> I fixed the regex (removed any detection of pre-9.0 matching, in fact), so all good there. But I wanted to point out that `ignore:` is documented in the wiki[1], so other extensions may use it. If no one else notices perhaps it’s not a big deal, but I want to call out that pg_regress features, “documented” or not, might be used outside the core.
I didn't know about that page, but I'm happy to go remove its
mention of "ignore:" ...
regards, tom lane
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