Peter Eisentraut writes:
> I think one problem is that diff -u is not as portable as diff -c. For
> example, the HP-UX 11 man page of diff doesn't list it.
FWIW, I can confirm that HPUX 10.20's diff hasn't got it. That would
not affect gaur/pademelon, if we make this change, because I installed
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 07:01:32PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund writes:
> > I personally, and I know of a bunch of other regular contributors, find
> > context diffs very hard to read. Besides general dislike, for things
> > like regression test output context diffs are just not well su
On 7 April 2017 at 10:31, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I personally, and I know of a bunch of other regular contributors, find
> context diffs very hard to read. Besides general dislike, for things
> like regression test output context diffs are just not well suited.
> E.g. in
> https://buildfa
On 04/06/2017 09:17 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 4/6/17 18:31, Andres Freund wrote:
>> I personally have PG_REGRESS_DIFF_OPTS set to -dU10, but that doesn't
>> help much analyzing buildfarm output.
>>
>> Therefore I propose changing the defaults in pg_regress.c.
> I think one problem is that
On 4/6/17 18:31, Andres Freund wrote:
> I personally have PG_REGRESS_DIFF_OPTS set to -dU10, but that doesn't
> help much analyzing buildfarm output.
>
> Therefore I propose changing the defaults in pg_regress.c.
I think one problem is that diff -u is not as portable as diff -c. For
example, the
Andres Freund writes:
> I personally, and I know of a bunch of other regular contributors, find
> context diffs very hard to read. Besides general dislike, for things
> like regression test output context diffs are just not well suited.
Personally, I disagree completely. Unified diffs are utter
On 04/06/2017 06:31 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I personally, and I know of a bunch of other regular contributors, find
> context diffs very hard to read. Besides general dislike, for things
> like regression test output context diffs are just not well suited.
> E.g. in
> https://buildfar
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I personally, and I know of a bunch of other regular contributors, find
> context diffs very hard to read. Besides general dislike, for things
> like regression test output context diffs are just not well suited.
> E.g. in
> https://