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Re: meson: Make test output much more useful on failure (both in CI and locally)

Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>

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From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>, Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-05-25T06:20:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, May 25, 2026, 00:18 Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:

> Why can't the TAP sets set it?
>

The TAP tests could, but then they'd be set indiscriminately for TAP tests.
Which means Peter's screen will still be flooded when he runs the TAP
tests.

In general I'd rather make the feature work well enough by default that
people don't want to disable it.

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