From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>,
        Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>,
        PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: TAP output format in pg_regress
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Comments: In-reply-to Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> Both of those things are fairly critical for test development.  You
>> need to know what else might be running in parallel with a test case,
>> and you need to know whether you just bloated the runtime unreasonably.

> That should be doable with tap as well - afaics the output of that could
> nearly be the same as now, preceded by a #.

I don't mind minor changes like prefixing # --- I just don't want
to lose information.

			regards, tom lane