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To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>,
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On 2026-05-17 Su 4:15 PM, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> On Thu Apr 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM CEST, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> How about something like this, which would only trigger the behaviour 
>> if an environment variable is set. Also adds that env setting to 
>> cirrus.tasks.yml.
>
> That approach has the problem that then we don't see the diffs anymore
> when pg_regress is called from TAP tests. Attached is a patch that I
> think addresses the problems with the original version.


Why can't the TAP sets set it?


cheers


andrew

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