Re: make check-world output

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: make check-world output
Date: 2017-04-03 06:03:44
Message-ID: CAB7nPqSAyoqvpiy0tKCmqgTpVySx+M=Dn8aCPideWsMFjSVZxQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
> The pg_upgrade test suite originated in an age when "make check-world" was
> forbidden to depend on Perl; the choice was a shell script or a C program. We
> do maintain vcregress.pl:upgradecheck(), a Windows-specific Perl port of the
> suite. Maintaining both versions has been tedious. I'd welcome a
> high-quality rewrite using src/test/perl facilities.

I need to check in my archives, but I recall having a WIP patch doing that:
- remove the shell scripts in src/bin/pg_upgrade.
- remove upgradecheck in vcregress.pl.
- add a TAP test in src/bin/pg_upgrade to run the upgrade tests.
So you are interested by that?
--
Michael

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