Re: RULE regression test fragility?

On 2013-10-23 20:50:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Mike Blackwell <mike.blackwell@rrd.com> writes:
> > While reviewing the Network Stats Traffic patch I discovered the current
> > regression test for rules depends on the system view definitions not
> > changing:
> 
> Yes, this is standard.  We just update the expected output anytime
> somebody changes a system view.

FWIW, I've repeatedly now thought that it'd make maintaining/updating
patches easier if we switched that query into unaligned tuple only (\a
\t) mode. That would remove the frequent conflicts on the row count and
widespread changes due to changed alignment.
Alternatively we could just wrap the query in \copy ... CSV.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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