From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
Cc: | Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [RRR] Tests citext casts |
Date: | 2008-11-07 20:12:52 |
Message-ID: | 22955.1226088772@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Nov 7, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> And how would TAP reduce the number of expected results?
> TAP doesn't compare output to expected output files. It's simply a
> test result output stream. A separate program then harnesses that
> output, looks at what passed and what failed, and emits a report. So
> you only have to maintain one file of tests.
... and you have very limited visibility into what went wrong, if
anything goes wrong. That's not real attractive for the buildfarm
environment. I like being able to see the actual query output.
regards, tom lane
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