Re: Can we automatically add elapsed times to tap test log?

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2022-04-07T21:58:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2022-04-07 17:45:09 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2022-04-07 17:21:09 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I too think that the elapsed time is useful.  I'm less convinced
> >> that the time-of-day marker is useful.
> 
> > I think it'd be quite useful if it had more precision - it's a pita to
> > correlate regress_log_* output with server logs.
> 
> Fair point.  Maybe we could keep the timestamp (with ms precision
> if possible) and then the parenthetical bit is time-since-last-line
> (also with ms precision)?  I think that would more or less satisfy
> both uses.

Would work for me...

Greetings,

Andres Freund



Commits

  1. Add timestamp and elapsed time decorations to TAP test logs