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Re: Time to change pg_regress diffs to unified by default?

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2017-04-07T01:17:32Z
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On 4/6/17 18:31, Andres Freund wrote:
> I personally have PG_REGRESS_DIFF_OPTS set to -dU10, but that doesn't
> help much analyzing buildfarm output.
> 
> Therefore I propose changing the defaults in pg_regress.c.

I think one problem is that diff -u is not as portable as diff -c.  For
example, the HP-UX 11 man page of diff doesn't list it.

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Commits

  1. pg_regress: Don't use absolute paths for the diff

  2. Use standard diff separator for regression.diffs