Re: Two weeks to feature freeze

Tom Lane wrote:

>Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> writes:
>
>
>>It would be nice to have a system which could receive a patch and
>>compile and verify that it passes the tests before it goes to Bruce's
>>queue; or compile on multiple platforms to check for portability
>>problems, for example.
>>
*snip*

>Another point is that passing on one platform doesn't ensure passing on
>another. Here we really rely on the willingness of the pghackers
>community to update to CVS tip regularly and run the regression tests
>when they do. Again, tests that take a couple minutes to run are ideal;
>if they took a week then the uptake would drop to zero, and we'd not be
>ahead.
>
>
Have you considered something similar to the Mozilla tinderbox approach
where you have a daemon checkout the cvs, compile, run regression tests,
and report a status or be able to report a status?