Re: make installcheck-world in a clean environment

Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 06.07.2018 00:39, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Exactly what order of steps are you executing that doesn't work?

> In Centos 7, using the master branch from git:
> ./configure --enable-tap-tests
> make install
> make install -C contrib
> chown -R postgres:postgres /usr/local/pgsql/
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> /make clean/
> # Also you can just install binary packages to get the same state.

> make installcheck-world
> # This check fails.

I do not think that should be expected to work. It would require that
"make installcheck" first invoke "make all" (to rebuild the stuff you
threw away with "make clean"), which is rather antithetical to its
purpose. Specifically, installcheck is supposed to be checking something
you already built; so having it do a fresh build seems to introduce
version-skew hazards that we don't need.

regards, tom lane