Re: Is pg_regress --use-existing used by anyone or is it broken?

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Is pg_regress --use-existing used by anyone or is it broken?
Date: 2023-08-29 22:37:03
Message-ID: 756F891D-4D26-4081-AF71-0A79ACA77FF5@yesql.se
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> On 30 Aug 2023, at 00:33, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 2:53 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>> Having looked a bit more on it I have a feeling that plain removing it would be
>> the best option. Unless someone chimes in as a user of it I'll propose a patch
>> to remove it.
>
> -1. I use it.

Thanks for confirming!

> It's handy when using pg_regress with a custom test suite, where I
> don't want to be nagged about disconnecting from the database every
> time.

I'm curious about your workflow around it, it seems to me that it's kind of
broken so I wonder if we instead then should make it an equal citizen with temp
instance?

--
Daniel Gustafsson

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