Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson -v9

On 06.07.22 15:21, Andres Freund wrote:
>> bda6a45bae meson: prereq: Refactor PG_TEST_EXTRA logic in autoconf build
>>
>> I understand the intention behind this, but I think it changes the
>> behavior in an undesirable way. Before this patch, you can go into
>> src/test/ssl/ and run make check manually. This was indeed the only
>> way to do it before PG_TEST_EXTRA. With this patch, this would now
>> skip all the tests unless you set PG_TEST_EXTRA, even if you run the
>> specific test directly.
> It's not a free lunch, I agree. But I think the downsides outweigh the upsides
> by far. Not seeing that tests were skipped in the test output is quite
> problematic imo. And with meson's testrunner we're going to need something
> that deals with skipping these tests - and it's more important to have them
> skipped, so that they show up in the test summary.
>
> It's not like it's hard to set PG_TEST_EXTRA for a single command invocation?

It's probably ok. I have it set in my environment all the time anyway,
so it wouldn't affect me. But it's the sort of thing people might be
particular about, so I thought it was worth pointing out.