Re: make check-world output

Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> For the basic build process, we've largely solved that through the
> use of "make -s". But we don't really have a comparable "be quiet"
> option for test runs, especially not the TAP tests. Maybe we need
> to think a bit more globally about what it is we're trying ton
> accomplish.

Removing --verbose from PROVE_FLAGS cuts the check-world output from
about 9.4k lines to 3.8k, i.e. ~60%. Doing 'make -s' cuts it by another
1.3k lines.

Another thing I noticed is that there's a bunch of 'diag' calls in the
tests scripts (particularly ssl/t/001_ssltests.pl and
recovery/t/001_stream_rep.pl) that should probably be 'note's instead,
so they don't pollute STDERR in non-verbose mode. 'diag' should only be
used to output extra diagnostics in the case of test failures, 'note' is
for test progress/status updates.

- ilmari

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