Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes:
> After having to play with this, I didn't like it very much, because
> regression.diffs gets spammed with the (rather massive and completely
> useless) diff in that test. For the xml tests, rather than ignoring it
> fail on an installation without libxml, we use an alternative output.
> Unless there are objections, I will commit the alternative file proposed
> by Dan.
+1 ... "ignore" is a pretty ugly hack here.
Eventually we need some way of detecting that specific tests should be
skipped because they're irrelevant to the current system configuration.
contrib/sepgsql is already doing something of the sort, but it's rather
crude ...
regards, tom lane
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