Re: libpq URI and regression testing

On 04/17/2012 02:47 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of mar abr 17 15:41:04 -0300 2012:
>> On tis, 2012-04-17 at 10:47 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> What's the preferred way to make it automatically tested as much as
>>> possible? I know the buildfarm does not run "installcheck-world", so if
>>> we want it there, it'd need a bit more code on the client side. I think
>>> it would be wise to have it also run on installcheck-world.
>> It was agreed during the patch discussion that it shouldn't be run
>> automatically.
> Oh, okay. I didn't notice that. I guess we should issue a
> call-for-testing, then, so that we ensure it works (FSVO works) in all
> (FSVO all) platforms.
>
>>> Hmm. Just had this thought: not all platform support the same socket
>>> types. Maybe we should have separated the .in file in three parts:
>>> IPv4, IPv6, unix-domain socket. That way each platform would only run
>>> tests that pertain to it. Right now there's a single "regress.in" file
>>> that lists all the tests.
>> That's one reason for that, but there are probably others in the way of
>> making this fully portable and automatable.

This test setup also appears to labor under the illusion that we live in
a Unix-only world. And for no good reason that I can tell. The shell
script should be ripped out and replaced by a perl script which could
actually be used on any windows build host. The MSVC build system also
needs adjusting to make it build the test driver, at least.

cheers

andrew