From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Reporting script runtimes in pg_regress
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Comments: In-reply-to Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> If we're going to keep this, should we enable the prove --timer option a=
s well?

As far as that goes: I've found that in some of my older Perl
installations, prove doesn't recognize the --timer switch.
So turning that on would require a configuration probe of some
sort, which seems like more trouble than it's worth.

			regards, tom lane