Re: Support "make check" for PGXS extensions

On 2025-03-20 Th 9:06 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> This is a quick follow-up to the extension_control_path patch.  With
> this little additional patch, you can now run "make check" in
> PGXS-using extensions (instead of having to do make install; make
> installcheck with a running instance).  I think this would be very
> convenient for extension development.
>
> The patch is still rough, probably needs a bit of work to do proper
> escaping, quoting, further testing, and it will probably break if you
> use a different source tree layout.  Maybe with a bit of help we can
> get this robust enough.  Or otherwise, it can at least serve as
> inspiration for what you can implement yourself in your extension's
> makefile.

No support for TAP tests, AFAICT. I guess this is a first step, but TAP
support would be nice.

cheers

andrew

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