Re: Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests

2024年2月6日(火) 19:54 Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>:
>
> I'm proposing here a way to pass extra options to initdb when run
> internally during test setup in pg_regress or
> PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster's init (which covers just about all test
> suites other than initdb's own tests).
>
> For example:
>
> make check PG_TEST_INITDB_EXTRA_OPTS='-k -c work_mem=50MB'
>
> We currently document at [0] a way to pass custom server settings to the
> tests via PGOPTIONS. But this only works for pg_regress and only for
> options that can be changed at run time. My proposal can set initdb
> options, and since initdb has the -c option now, it can set any GUC
> parameter as well.
>
> I think this can be useful for a wide variety of uses, like running all
> tests with checksums enabled, or with JIT enabled, or with different GUC
> settings, or with different locale settings. (The existing pg_regress
> --no-locale option is essentially a special case of this, but it only
> provides one particular locale setting, not things like changing the
> default provider etc.)
>
> Of course, not all tests are going to pass with arbitrary options, but
> it is useful to run this against specific test suites.
>
> This patch also updates the documentation at [0] to explain the new
> method and distinguish it from the previously documented methods.

+1 for this, I recently ran into an issue with the regression tests for an
extension where it would have been very useful to provide some initdb
options.

Patch works as expected after a quick initial test.

Regards

Ian Barwick