On 02.04.26 14:25, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

On 2026-03-20 Fr 2:13 PM, Corey Huinker wrote:

    Shortened it using your example run.


Glad I was able to help.

    > I can't wait to use this.

    Me too :) I've also added the Author/Reviewed-By/Discussion footers to
    the commits to make the committers job easier.


I've held off on doing that in my proposed commits so as not to be presumptuous, but I can see where having it available would be a convenience for the committer. This will be a good test of that.

Applies clean to master, passes tests. Ship it.


Committed with minor tidy up. The main change was to add a @CARP_NOT setting in Utils.pm, so that croak() would look back past Cluster.pm to the TAP script caller.

I would like to register a vote against this new behavior:

    pg_regress: Include diffs in TAP output

    When pg_regress fails it is often tedious to find the actual diffs,
especially in CI where you must navigate a file browser. Emit the first
    80 lines of the combined regression.diffs as TAP diagnostics so the
    failure reason is visible directly in the test output.

I find this annoying.

What happens, and this is admittedly my particular experience, is that the diff lines are wider than the terminal width, and so 80 lines in the file might end up being 200 lines on screen, and then the summary of the test failure disappears from the screen and the diff output is garbled and useless, and so the whole output is now less useful than before.

I could see this maybe being useful if the entire diff file is, say, less than 50 lines. But I don't see how seeing a truncated diff by default can be useful.

The commit message makes reference to "especially on CI". Maybe this new behavior should be triggered by being on CI, or the output not being a terminal, or something like that.


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