Re: reduce size of logs stored by buildfarm

On 2025-Nov-25, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> I think his patches 1 and 3 seem like no-brainers.


On 2025-Nov-25, Andres Freund wrote:

> On 2025-11-25 14:30:33 +0100, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> > I just noticed that one regress log file for the pg_dump test is about
> > 7MB long because it contains totally unnecessary dump files in the
> > regress log output.  This is because the tests run pg_dump of schema
> > pg_catalog without redirecting the output anywhere, which means it goes
> > to stdout, and then `prove` helpfully puts it in the regress log file.
> > This is completely pointless.  We can make the log file 1 MB instead by
> > adding a --file parameter to that command, as 0001 attached.
> 
> Yea, that makes no sense.

Thanks, pushed 0001.

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