Re: Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
> On 15 Feb 2024, at 11:38, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
>> We don't have a man page for pg_regress, so there is no place to comprehensively document all the options and their interactions.

> This comes up every now and again, just yesterday there was a question on
> -general [0] about alternate output files which also are
> undocumented.

Really?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/regress-variant.html

> Maybe it's time to add documentation for pg_regress?

I'm inclined to think that a formal man page wouldn't be that useful,
since nobody ever invokes pg_regress directly; as Peter says, what
is of interest is the "make check" targets and the corresponding meson
behaviors. I think 32.1 is already reasonably thorough about the
make targets; but the complete lack of equivalent info about what
to do in a meson build clearly needs to be rectified.

regards, tom lane