Re: Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default?
Date: 2017-04-07 01:17:32
Message-ID: 300071a2-a27f-36fd-0ce6-c6a5263f789e@2ndquadrant.com
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On 4/6/17 18:31, Andres Freund wrote:
> I personally have PG_REGRESS_DIFF_OPTS set to -dU10, but that doesn't
> help much analyzing buildfarm output.
>
> Therefore I propose changing the defaults in pg_regress.c.

I think one problem is that diff -u is not as portable as diff -c. For
example, the HP-UX 11 man page of diff doesn't list it.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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