[postgis-devel] [OT] postgresql raise notice is giving me a major headache

[Paul Ramsey]

Not really, you can see that we had to write our own regression harness (run_test) as soon as we supported multiple versions of PgSQL.  

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On Thursday, September 5, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> We have a bunch of functions in pgrouting that output a lot of 
> informational NOTICE messages to the user.
> 
> In our automated tests, we collect the command output and compare it to 
> a reference file. The headache is the no two versions of postgresql 
> output the same format for these messages. So a lot of our test fail 
> with false positive errors. We are testing on pg versions 9.0, 9.1 and 
> 9.2 and I guess we should be adding 9.3 soon also.
> 
> I guess the obvious answer is to not compare the notice messages. But I 
> don't like that answer.
> 
> Any better thoughts on this?
> 
> -Steve
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