Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> 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 utterly unreadable
for anything beyond trivial cases of small well-separated changes.
It's possible that regression failure diffs will usually fall into that
category, but I'm not convinced.
regards, tom lane