I probably would not have looked there honestly; I was working in the
terminal and had the source code right there. Could we put a link to that
page in the README?

"For more information on Postgres's TAP tests, see the docs:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/regress-tap.html";

Kevin


On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 7:14 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Kevin Burke <ke...@burke.dev> writes:
> > I've been trying to run the SSL tests against my branch and that was
> > tougher than expected because I didn't realize that additional output was
> > being saved that I couldn't see - it wasn't even getting to the part
> where
> > it could run the tests. This patch adds a note to the README explaining
> > where to look if you get an error.
>
> That's a generic thing about every one of our TAP tests, so documenting
> it in that one README doesn't seem like an appropriate answer.  Would
> it have helped you to explain it in
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/regress-tap.html
>
> ?
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>

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