Re: Reporting script runtimes in pg_regress

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Reporting script runtimes in pg_regress
Date: 2019-02-15 16:24:53
Message-ID: 4668.1550247893@sss.pgh.pa.us
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John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2/15/19, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> We should also strive to align "FAILED" properly. This is currently
>> quite unreadable:
>>
>> int4 ... ok (128 ms)
>> int8 ... FAILED (153 ms)
>> oid ... ok (163 ms)
>> float4 ... ok (231 ms)

> If I may play devil's advocate, who cares how long it takes a test to
> fail? If it's not difficult, leaving the time out for failures would
> make them stand out more.

Actually, I'd supposed that that might be useful info, sometimes.
For example it might help you guess whether a timeout had elapsed.

regards, tom lane

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