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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2000-11-22 00:58:47 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2000-11-22 00:58:47 +0000
commit11391685d1f044e13e109a82bcdd42193029079b (patch)
tree2ac7aea7ba4ca9f409b700cef82c69f3c2961999 /doc/src
parent0e9ba445064dfaf524cca71e908f48b933509daf (diff)
Tweak resultmap documentation, add to README too.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml
index 239250ae848..3f3d16f97c1 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml,v 1.13 2000/11/21 23:40:27 petere Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml,v 1.14 2000/11/22 00:58:47 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter id="regress">
<title id="regress-title">Regression Tests</title>
@@ -289,13 +289,14 @@ diff results/random.out expected/random.out
<para>
Each line in the mapping file is of the form
<synopsis>
-testname/platformnamepattern=comparisonfilename
+testname/platformpattern=comparisonfilename
</synopsis>
The test name is just the name of the particular regression test
- module. The platform name pattern is a pattern in the style of
- expr(1) (that is, a regular expression with an implicit ^ anchor
+ module. The platform pattern is a pattern in the style of
+ expr(1) (that is, a regular expression with an implicit
+ <literal>^</literal> anchor
at the start). It is matched against the platform name as printed
- by <filename>config.guess</filename> with an appended
+ by <filename>config.guess</filename> followed by
<literal>:gcc</literal> or <literal>:cc</literal>, depending on
whether you use the GNU compiler or the system's native compiler
(on systems where there is a difference). The comparison file