Re: Strange Windows problem, lock_timeout test request

On 01/31/2013 09:55 AM, Zoltán Böszörményi wrote:
> 2013-01-31 15:22 keltezéssel, Alvaro Herrera írta:
>> Zoltán Böszörményi wrote:
>>
>>> I have found a little time to look into this problem and
>>> found a way to make pg_regress use prepared_xacts_1.out.
>>> I had to change line 2193 in pg_regress.c from
>>>
>>> fputs("max_prepared_transactions = 2\n", pg_conf);
>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>> fputs("max_prepared_transactions = 0\n", pg_conf);
>>>
>>> The patch now passed "make check" in both cases.
>> That sounds a lot more difficult than just using "make installcheck" and
>> configure the running server with zero prepared xacts ...
>
> It didn't occur to me to use "make installcheck" for this one.
>
> What is strange though is why prepared_xacts_1.out exists
> at all, since pg_regress.c / make check seems to set
> max_prepared_transactions on Windows, too.
>
> Is there a way to specify such settings in REGRESS_OPTS?
>
>

You can use the temp_config option to specify a file with non-standard
settings that will be appended to the installed postgresql.conf.

cheers

andrew