meson: Make test output much more useful on failure (both in CI and locally)

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ID 6435
Title meson: Make test output much more useful on failure (both in CI and locally)
CI (CFBot) Needs rebase! Needs rebase since 21 hours. Failing since 21 hours.
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Tags CI Devtools
Created 2026-01-26 10:16:11
Last modified 2026-04-02 12:26:28 (yesterday)
Latest email 2026-04-02 13:39:43 (yesterday)
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PG19-Final (2026-03-01 – 2026-04-09): Committed

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Authors Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef)
Reviewers Corey Huinker (coreyh)Become reviewer
Committer Andrew Dunstan (adunstan)
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meson: Make test output much more useful on failure (both in CI and locally)
First at 2026-01-26 10:13:57 by "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl>
Latest at 2026-04-02 13:39:43 by Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres at jeltef.nl>
Latest attachment (v5-0001-pg_regress-Include-diffs-in-output.patch) at 2026-03-20 08:19:19 from "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl>
    

Attachment (v5-0001-pg_regress-Include-diffs-in-output.patch) at 2026-03-20 08:19:19 from "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (v4-0001-pg_regress-Include-diffs-in-output.patch) at 2026-03-17 10:23:26 from "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (v3-0001-pg_regress-Include-diffs-in-output.patch) at 2026-02-06 08:44:12 from "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (nocfbot.v2-0005-Fail-some-tests.patch) at 2026-01-27 14:48:55 from "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (nocfbot.v1-0005-Fail-some-tests.patch) at 2026-01-26 10:13:57 from "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl> (Patch: Yes)

History
When Who What
2026-04-03 09:08:29 CFbot Patch needs rebase
2026-04-02 12:26:28 Andrew Dunstan (adunstan) Closed in commitfest PG19-Final with status: Committed
2026-04-02 12:26:28 Andrew Dunstan (adunstan) Changed committer to adunstan
2026-03-19 19:44:44 Corey Huinker (coreyh) Added coreyh as reviewer
2026-02-12 21:28:20 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) New status: Ready for Committer
2026-01-26 10:16:11 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) Attached mail thread DFYFWM053WHS.10K8ZPJ605UFK@jeltef.nl
2026-01-26 10:16:11 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) Created patch record

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