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

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Cc: 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: 2026-05-24T22:18:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2026-05-17 Su 4:15 PM, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> On Thu Apr 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM CEST, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> How about something like this, which would only trigger the behaviour 
>> if an environment variable is set. Also adds that env setting to 
>> cirrus.tasks.yml.
>
> That approach has the problem that then we don't see the diffs anymore
> when pg_regress is called from TAP tests. Attached is a patch that I
> think addresses the problems with the original version.


Why can't the TAP sets set it?


cheers


andrew

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