Re: pg_upgrade automatic testing

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On ons, 2011-04-27 at 18:14 -0400, Noah Misch wrote:
>> Enthusiastic +1 for this concept.  There's at least one rough edge: it fails if
>> you have another postmaster running on port 5432.
>
> This has now been addressed: pg_upgrade accepts PGPORT settings.
> Attached is a slightly updated patch runs the test suite with a port of
> 65432, which you can override by setting PGPORT yourself.
>
> Anyway, is this something that people want in the repository?  It's not
> as polished as the pg_regress business, but it is definitely helpful.

Is this going to result in using the built binaries with the installed
libraries, a la Tom's recent complaint about the isolation tests?

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