Re: factor out encoding dependent json/jsonb regression tests

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> I'm rather tired of having to update two sets of output files every time we
> change the json and jsonb regression tests. Also, other committers
> occasionally fall over this trap and fail to update json_1.out and
> jsonb_1.out, as do almost all other patch authors. I propose that we remove
> those tests to quite small json_utf8.sql and jsonb_utf8.sql (which will each
> have 2 output files) and that will allow us to get rid of json_1.out and
> jsonb_1.out. I'd like to backpatch this to 9.4 for jsonb and 9.2 for json.
> Alternatively, for >= 9.4 we could just add the jsonb encoding-specific
> tests to json_utf8.sql, to avoid a greater proliferation of tests.

While I figured out a way of dealing with that that is minimally
annoying, it is a little confusing.

+1 to doing this, and +1 to backpatching. I don't think that there is
actually very much different between each output.

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Peter Geoghegan