Re: convert libpq uri-regress tests to tap test

On 23.02.22 23:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> On 23.02.22 21:30, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> Where would we want that test to live? Right now we have the slightly odd
>>> convention that some tap tests live in src/test/{misc,modules,...}. But
>>> e.g. frontend binary ones are below src/bin/.
>
>> libpq TAP tests should be in src/interfaces/libpq/t/.
>
>> I think there were issues that the build farm wouldn't pick up a test
>> located there, but that should be fixed rather than worked around.
>
> That's failing to account for the fact that a libpq test can't
> really be a pure-perl TAP test; you need some C code to drive the
> library. I don't agree with intermixing such code with libpq
> itself, independently of any buildsystem issues (which there
> might well be).

Such things could be put under src/interfaces/libpq/test, or some other
subdirectory. We already have src/interfaces/ecpg/test.

> So I think the design of putting such tests under
> src/modules is fine.

I don't get what the rationale for that would be. libpq tests are not
"modules" of any kind.

If I'm working on libpq, I want to do make && make check inside the
libpq source directory.