Re: pg_upgrade automatic testing

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> Seeing that 9.1-to-9.1 pg_upgrade has apparently been broken for months,
> it would probably be good to have some kind of automatic testing for it.
> Attached is something I hacked together that at least exposes the
> current problems, easily available by typing "make check" and waiting.
> It does not yet fully implement the full testing procedure in the
> TESTING file, in particular the diffing of the dumps (well, because you
> can't get there yet).
>
> Is that something that people are interested in refining?
>
> (I think it would even be possible under this setup to create special
> regression test cases that are only run under the pg_upgrade test run,
> to exercise particularly tricky upgrade cases.)

I think it's a worthwhile thing to do, but right now I think it would
be more helpful if you could help fix the breakage your patch created,
rather than working on new stuff.

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