Re: possibility to specify template database for pg_regress

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On 2017-02-13 20:59:43 +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> 2017-02-13 6:46 GMT+01:00 Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>>
>> > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > here is new update - check is done before any creating
>> >
>> > It may be better to do any checks before dropping existing databases
>> > as well... It would be as well just simpler to complain with a single
>> > error message like "database and template list lengths do not match".
>> >
>>
>> next step

This looks fine to me.

> I still fail to see why --use-existing as suggested in
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170208002900.vkldujzfkwbvqqq7@alap3.anarazel.de
> isn't sufficient.

Some tests create objects without removing them, meaning that
continuous runs would fail with only --use-existing. This patch brings
value in such cases.
--
Michael