Re: Heap page diagnostic/test functions (v2)

On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 18:19 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 11:53 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > This looks useful, but shouldn't it be part of /contrib/pgstattuple
> > > rather than in the backend?
> >
> > Well, this was written with a view to it being usable for writing test
> > cases that checked the various tuple states as we went. It was
> > originally proposed when Tom asked "How will we test HOT?" (concurrent
> > psql is the other half of the required base functionality to write
> > sensible test cases).
> >
> > If we see it as a manual test tool only, contrib is OK. But it has to be
> > in the backend to be usable in the regression test suite, so thats where
> > it was designed to go.
>
> Well, contrib can have its own regression tests. We can put the HOT
> tests in there too.

OK.

I'll rework it once I've completed the other items on my list. Feel free
to have a hack at it if I'm a little slow. I only have today left before
I'm away for two weeks - travelling tomorrow.

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Simon Riggs
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