Re: Recent pg_regress changes break testing under SELinux

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Recent pg_regress changes break testing under SELinux
Date: 2008-01-19 00:24:07
Message-ID: 14565.1200702247@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Yeah, agreed. The original idea was to have a shortcut created by the
> installer to do that for you.
> ...
> Well, there is a way to run it from the msvc build. The idea was to be
> able to run after a binary install. Granted it doesn't make that much
> sense, but it was mostly a "customer feel good" thing. But there's
> nothing preventing that from being done from a .BAT file instead of a
> direct shortcut.

Well, I suppose anything along this line is more code churn than we
should engage in post-RC2. What I propose for now is that we just
"#ifdef WIN32" the directory deletion/remaking in pg_regress.c, with
a suitable comment, and then we can revisit the issue in 8.4 or later.

regards, tom lane

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