Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove -w (--ignore-all-space) option from pg_regress's diff

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove -w (--ignore-all-space) option from pg_regress's diff
Date: 2009-11-23 05:30:43
Message-ID: 24364.1258954243@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Remove -w (--ignore-all-space) option from pg_regress's diff calls.

> Looks like this has broken on Windows due to different line endings,
> which -w hid from us.

Yeah. I was waiting for brown_bat to report in before bringing this
up on the list, because I don't entirely understand what's happening.
So far it appears that the MSVC builds are fine and the MinGW builds
are not. How can that be? Aren't they using the same diff program?

regards, tom lane

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