Re: possibility to specify template database for pg_regress

2017-02-08 1:30 GMT+01:00 Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > I ran into a use-case just today: I wanted to run one particular
> > regression test script under CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS, but it needed
> > stuff created by earlier scripts, and I didn't especially want to
> > run all of those scripts under CCA. With a way to select a template,
> > I could've run the earlier scripts in a normal build, renamed the
> > ending-state regression database to something else, and then installed
> > a CCA-enabled executable and run a test with just the script of
> > interest. The way I actually got it done was considerably hackier :-(
>
> Looking at the code, --dbname can actually accept a list of databases.
> Perhaps we could just have the equivalent for templates? I think that
> we just need to be sure that the template list matches the length of
> the database list if the template list is longer than one.
>

What is sense for list of databases?

Some option --template can be great - with backpatch if it is possible.

Regards

Pavel

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