Re: pg_regress: referencing shared objects from tests

Jorgen Austvik - Sun Norway <Jorgen(dot)Austvik(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The RPM packages have done this since approximately forever. You might
>> want to look at the patches used there.

> yes [1] is the same that we have been using internally.

> Let me reformulate my question: would it be better to include something
> like the attached patch in PostgreSQL, than have every distributor of
> the tests apply it?

> [1]
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/postgresql/F-9/postgresql-test.patch?rev=1.3&view=auto

I never particularly thought it would be useful to push that patch
upstream, but certainly it would make life a tad simpler for Devrim and
me. Since nobody else has objected, I'll look into doing this in HEAD.

regards, tom lane