Re: [HACKERS] Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default?

From: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default?
Date: 2019-01-03 09:39:17
Message-ID: 20190103093917.GB8340@msg.df7cb.de
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Re: Peter Eisentraut 2019-01-02 <70440c81-37bb-76dd-e48b-b5a9550d5613(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> Committed.

\o/

> While we're considering the pg_regress output, what do you think about
> replacing the ======... separator with a standard diff separator like
> "diff %s %s %s\n". This would make the file behave more like a proper
> diff file, for use with other tools. And it shows the diff options
> used, for clarity. See attached patch.

It will especially say which _alternate.out file was used, which seems
like a big win. So +1.

Christoph

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