Re: meson: Make test output much more useful on failure (both in CI and locally)

Hi,

Thank you for working on this! I think this is a nice improvement.

On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 at 17:48, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> wrote:
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> On Mon Jan 26, 2026 at 5:42 PM CET, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I agree that what we currently do is pretty unhelpful.
>
> Attached is v2, which I think fixes all the issues that you mentioned.

v2-0001:

This doesn't really read the first 80 lines of the combined diff.
Lines with more than 1023 characters will be counted and printed as
multiple lines. I don't think this is a problem but clearing this
would be helpful. Other than that, it looks good to me.

v2-0002:

I am just curious if test failure can cause file descriptors not being
properly closed and then the IPC::Run:run() call will hang
indefinitely like the pg_ctl case. Other than that, it looks good to
me.

v2-0003 and v2-0004 look good to me.

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Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft