Re: Can we automatically add elapsed times to tap test log?

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 4/2/22 06:57, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Here's a version that actually works. It produces traces that look like
>> this:
>> andrew@emma:pg_upgrade $ grep '([0-9]*s)'
>> tmp_check/log/regress_log_002_pg_upgrade
>> [21:55:06](63s) ok 1 - dump before running pg_upgrade
>> [21:55:22](79s) ok 2 - run of pg_upgrade for new instance
>> [21:55:27](84s) ok 3 - old and new dumps match after pg_upgrade
>> [21:55:27](84s) 1..3

> I know there's a lot going on, but are people interested in this? It's a
> pretty small patch to produce something that seems quite useful.

I too think that the elapsed time is useful.  I'm less convinced
that the time-of-day marker is useful.

It also seems kind of odd that the elapsed time accumulates rather
than being reset for each line.  As it stands one would be doing a lot
of mental subtractions rather than being able to see directly how long
each step takes.  I suppose that on fast machines where each step is
under one second, accumulation would be more useful than printing a
lot of zeroes --- but on the other hand, those aren't the cases where
you're going to be terribly concerned about the runtime.

            regards, tom lane