Re: regression test for extended query protocol

Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 12:21 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > If somebody had some spare time to devote to this, I would suggest to
> > implement something in core that can be used to specify a list of
> > commands to run, and a list of files-to-be-saved-in-bf-log emitted by
> > each command. We could have one such base file in the core repo that
> > specifies some tests to run (such as "make -C src/test/recovery check"),
> > and an additional file can be given by buildfarm animals to run custom
> > tests, without having to write BF modules for each thing. With that,
> > pgsql committers could simply add a new test to be run by all buildfarm
> > animals by adding it to the list in core.
>
> Do you think about using a special makefile target to run those
> commands, say in src/test? At the end we are going to need to patch
> the buildfarm client code at least once, at least that would be worth
> it in the long term..

Sure. Some time ago I proposed something like a JSON file, something
like

test_foo => {
"command" : "make -C src/test/blah check",
"save_output" : [ "src/test/blah/server.log", "src/test/blah/regress*.log" ]
}

as I recall, Andrew said that he didn't like JSON very much but that the
idea made sense to him.

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