Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump not in very good shape

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> On 2000-01-15, Tom Lane mentioned:
>
> > I have repaired the most recently introduced coredump in pg_dump,
> > but it still crashes on the regression test database.
>
> Which brings up the idea why the regression tests don't test pg_dump. It's
> just as important to people as the backend. psql already gets tested more
> or less. Would it not be a decent idea to do a
>
> pg_dump regress > out
> diff out expected.out
>
> at the end of the tests? That way we could catch these problems
> earlier. (Especially since I'm not sure how many people use pg_dump at all
> during development.)

Actually the megatest is:

pg_dump regress > out
dropdb regression
createdb regression
psql regression < out
pg_dump regress > out2
diff out out2

That is the pg_dump test, and someone usually does it as part of
regression testing before each release.

It would be nice to add this to test/regress/Makefile maybe.

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