Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X

On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 21:18 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > If none of this gets us closer to an answer, I can try to produce a
> > patch that produces more details for such failures.
> 
> A test that fails for no reason that can be gleaned from the output is
> not an improvement over not having a test at all.

I understand that this isn't great, and it's certainly something I'm
looking into.  But it's like pg_regress saying that psql crashed and
leaving you to find out why.  I don't think saying that the entire
regression test suite is useless because of that is fair.  The TAP tests
are arguably already much easier to debug than pg_regress ever was.