On 05/13/2017 11:32 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Or at least, that's what I surmise from the fact that buildfarm critter >> caiman has been failing that test for the last day or so, with symptoms >> indicating whitespace changes in Data::Dumper output. Some poking into >> the Fedora repo shows that rawhide updated perl-Data-Dumper from 2.161 >> to 2.167 on May 11, so that fits ... > Depending on the precise details of how Data::Dumper prints things > doesn't seem like a particularly good idea. >
I'd be inclined to set $Data::Dumper::Indent to 0 which would suppress all indentation, and adjusting the test results accordingly. We already set $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys to 1, so there's precedent for controlling how it presents data back to us. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan https://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
