Re: [PATCH] Reduce src/test/recovery verbosity

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-03-29T18:59:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (ilmari@ilmari.org) wrote:

> > Non-verbose prove still lists each test script, it just doesn't list
> > each individual test within the script.
> 
> I agree that it'd be better to just show the per-script results rather
> than every little test result because it's just too much.

Well, for some test files a single test could take half a minute.  A
dozen lines taking in total about a minute seems fine to me.  The
problem I see is a (pg_dump I think) script that has over 500 tests.

> If there's a way to change the verbosity for just those scripts, I'd be
> happy to do that, if we're unable to agree on reducing it across the
> board..

I'd rather silence only scripts that are overly verbose.

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Commits

  1. Remove --verbose from PROVE_FLAGS