Re: ignore $PostgreSQL lines in regression tests?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>> Recently while adding $PostgreSQL markers to a bunch of .c and .h files 
>> I ran into trouble with the ecpg regression tests and had to revert the 
>> change for a handful of files. However, it occurred to me that we could 
>> have pg_regress tell diff to ignore such lines, by passing it the 
>> arguments "-I  '\$PostgreSQL:' ", which would tell it to ignore 
>> additions or deletions of lines matching that regex.
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>   
>> Would this be a good thing to do?
>>     
>
> I'm inclined to think not.  It's easy to think of scenarios where such
> a switch would mask errors.
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OK.

cheers

andrew