| From: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Test code is worth the space |
| Date: | 2015-08-22 06:16:17 |
| Message-ID: | 20150822061617.GA2245777@tornado.leadboat.com |
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 02:03:19PM +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
> > My own position is based on having maintained a pg_regress suite an order of
> > magnitude larger than that. I don't know why that outcome was so different.
> And does your pg_regress test suite actually find many bugs or does it
> mainly detect when functionality has changed and require updating
> expected results to match?
It found plenty of bugs and required plenty of expected output updates.
> >> I suspect any effort to significantly improve Postgres test coverage is
> >> doomed until there's an alternative to pg_regress.
> >
> > There is the src/test/perl/TestLib.pm harness.
>
> Sadly I think the test suite is only half the battle.
Certainly.
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