Re: Clean up ancient test style

Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> Many older tests where written in a style like
> SELECT '' AS two, i.* FROM INT2_TBL ...

> where the first column indicated the number of expected result rows.
> This has gotten increasingly out of date, as the test data fixtures
> have expanded, so a lot of these don't match anymore and are misleading.
> Moreover, this style isn't really necessary, since the psql output
> already shows the number of result rows. (Perhaps this was different at
> some point?)

> I'm proposing to clean all this up by removing all those extra columns.

+1 for concept ... I didn't bother to check the patch in detail.

regards, tom lane