Re: Reporting script runtimes in pg_regress

On 2019-Feb-18, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> On 2019-02-15 15:54, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> We should also strive to align "FAILED" properly.
> > Hmm.  The reasonable ways to accomplish that look to be either
> > (a) pad "ok" to the width of "FAILED", or (b) rely on emitting a tab.
> > I don't much like either, especially from the localization angle.
> > One should also note that FAILED often comes along with additional
> > verbiage, such as "(ignored)" or a note about process exit status;
> > so I think making such cases line up totally neatly is a lost cause
> > anyway.
> 
> Yeah, not strictly required, but someone might want to play around with
> it a bit.

FWIW I don't think we localize pg_regress output currently, so that
argument seems moot ... But I think we can get away with constant four
spaces for now.

If we wanted to get really fancy, for interactive use we could colorize
the output.  (I wonder if there's a way to get browsers to colorize
text/plain output somehow instead of printing the ansi codes).

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