Re: Backpatch src/test/modules to 9.3?

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> When discussing multixacts around pgcon (including the developer
> meeting) we decided that we want to add test code to make exercising the
> truncation code easier.

> In master the most logical place for that seems to be src/test/modules.
> Unfortunately 9.3/9.4 don't have that. Given that the multixact code
> isn't the same in the backbranches, and will hopefully diverge further,
> I'd rather have tests there. So maybe we should just add
> src/test/modules there? These then will not be exercised by the
> buildfarm, but the affected code isn't particularly platform dependant,
> so that doesn't worry me much?

Presumably, once the files are there, it would be a simple adjustment
to get the buildfarm to run those tests in branches >= 9.3 rather
than >= 9.5. So +1 for back-patching this infrastructure.

regards, tom lane