From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> |
Cc: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Very confusing installcheck behavior with PGXS |
Date: | 2016-01-07 23:58:25 |
Message-ID: | 20160107235825.GA550344@alvherre.pgsql |
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> wrote:
>
> >>> Also worth noting: the only reason I'm using pg_regress is it's the easiest
> >>> way to get a test cluster. If not for that, I'd just use pg_prove since I'm
> >>> already using pgTap.
> >>
> >> In 9.5 you might want to "use PostgresNode" which allows you to initdb
> >> and such.
> >
> > Oooh, thanks! I might well just copy that into my pgxntool utility.
>
> Is this documented somewhere?
Not in detail. Patches welcome; see the "regress-tap" sect1 in
doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml.
> If it’s Perl, seems like it’d only be useful for those of us who compile from source, yes?
Feel free to submit patches for discussion to install the modules. We
already install pg_regress under lib/pgxs/src/test/regress/ so I see no
reason we couldn't install the Perl test modules somewhere. If you
hurry you can still make it to 9.6's last commitfest.
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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