Re: TAP output format in pg_regress

On November 24, 2022 11:07:43 AM PST, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>> On 24 Nov 2022, at 18:07, Nikolay Shaplov <dhyan@nataraj.su> wrote:
>One option could be to redefine bail() to take the exit function as a parameter
>and have the caller pass the preferred exit handler.
>
>-bail_out(bool non_rec, const char *fmt,...)
>+bail(void (*exit_func)(int), const char *fmt,...)
>
>The callsites would then look like the below, which puts a reference to the
>actual exit handler used in the code where it is called.

I'd just rename _bail to bail_noatexit().


>> This magic spell "...%-5i %s%-*s %8.0f ms\n" is too dark to repeat it even two 
>> times. I understand problems with spaces... But may be it would be better 
>> somehow narrow it to one ugly print... Print "ok %-5i    "|"not ok %-5i" to 
>> buffer first, and then have one "%s%-*s %8.0f ms%s\n" print or something like 
>> that...
>
>I'm not convinced that this printf format is that hard to read (which may well
>be attributed to Stockholm Syndrome), and I do think that breaking it up and
>adding more code to print the line will make it less readable instead.

I don't think it's terrible either. I do think it'd also be ok to switch between ok / not ok within a single printf, making it easier to keep them in sync.

Andres

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