Re: pgsql: meson: Add 'running' test setup, as a replacement for installche

On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 9:48 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> meson: Add 'running' test setup, as a replacement for installcheck

The -running tests don't seem to be completely stable on CI. I don't
know why (smells like plan changes?) but see cfbot.cputube.org for
some flapping on FreeBSD (the only OS where this is enabled), and
there's also one example on github.com/posgres/postgres that seems a
bit different.

>
> To run all tests that support running against existing server:
> $ meson test --setup running
>
> To run just the main pg_regress tests against existing server:
> $ meson test --setup running regress-running/regress
>
> To ensure the 'running' setup continues to work, test it as part of the
> freebsd CI task.
>
> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=XDQcmLoo7RR_i6FKQdDmcyb9q5gStnfuuQXrOGhB2sQ@mail.gmail.com
>
> Branch
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> master
>
> Details
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> https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3f0e786ccbf50a2f819fbf72d51ba13221adaaa1
>
> Modified Files
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> .cirrus.yml | 15 +++++
> contrib/basic_archive/meson.build | 3 +
> contrib/pg_freespacemap/meson.build | 3 +
> contrib/pg_stat_statements/meson.build | 4 ++
> contrib/pg_walinspect/meson.build | 3 +
> contrib/test_decoding/meson.build | 5 ++
> doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml | 6 ++
> meson.build | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> src/interfaces/ecpg/test/meson.build | 1 +
> src/test/isolation/meson.build | 1 +
> src/test/modules/commit_ts/meson.build | 3 +
> src/test/modules/snapshot_too_old/meson.build | 3 +
> src/test/modules/test_oat_hooks/meson.build | 1 +
> src/test/modules/test_pg_dump/meson.build | 2 +
> src/test/modules/test_slru/meson.build | 1 +
> src/test/modules/worker_spi/meson.build | 4 +-
> src/test/regress/meson.build | 1 +
> 17 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>