Sorry for the pgTAP off-topicness here, hackers. Please feel free to ignore.
On May 17, 2016, at 8:10 AM, Jim Nasby <jim.na...@bluetreble.com> wrote: > Speaking specifically to is(), what I'd find most useful is if it at least > hinted that there might be some type shenanigans going on, because I've run > across something like your example more than once and it always takes a lot > to finally figure out WTF is going on. Agreed. Same for the relation testing functions. Maybe some additional diagnostics could be added in the event of failure. > I think it'd also be useful to be able to specify an equality operator to > is(), though that means not using IS DISTINCT. You can use cmp_ok(). http://pgxn.org/dist/pgtap/doc/pgtap.html#cmp_ok. > Something else to keep in mind here is that is() is defined as is(anyelement, > anyelement, text), which means you've lost your original type information > when you use it. I don't think you could actually do anything useful here > because of that. pg_typeof() will give it to you. Best, David
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