Re: Document how to run only specific regress tests

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Paul A Jungwirth <pj(at)illuminatedcomputing(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Document how to run only specific regress tests
Date: 2024-10-29 08:28:23
Message-ID: 2FE9E358-D871-4CC5-A2F5-AB4776D94596@yesql.se
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> On 29 Oct 2024, at 05:40, Paul A Jungwirth <pj(at)illuminatedcomputing(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I never knew this was possible, but I ran across a note on the meson
> wiki page[1]. I wish I knew about it years ago!
>
> This patch adds a note to
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/regress-run.html so that other
> hackers and potential hackers will know about it.

While not related to this patch per se, the lack of any meson related
information on that page isn't great.

+ Note that sometimes tests depend on each other, so you might get
+ extra failures.

Reading this pretending I don't know about regression test internals, I think
"extra" would be hard to interpret the meaning of. How about "unexpected"?

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Daniel Gustafsson

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