Re: Does PostgreSQL have complete functional test cases?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tianyin Xu <tixu(at)cs(dot)ucsd(dot)edu>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Does PostgreSQL have complete functional test cases?
Date: 2012-11-09 02:36:33
Message-ID: 20121109023633.GH7225@alvh.no-ip.org
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Craig Ringer wrote:

> It'd be nice to split the tests up into clearer groups - "will fail if
> planner settings are changed; WARNING", "will fail only if incorrect
> result is returned; FATAL" etc. Right now, AFAIK that hasn't been done.

Not sure that's enough of an improvement. Really, these tests should
pass whatever the optimizer parameters are set to; instead of checking
the exact order of the result set, they should check that the right
tuples are returned. Except, of course, in those cases that specify
ORDER BY.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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