Re: 9.6 TAP tests and extensions

On 24 Sep. 2016 04:04, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:.
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> >
> > It's thus sufficient to apply the patch to install the perl modules to
> > 9.4, 9.5 and 9.6. Nothing else is needed. I've attached backports for
> > 9.4 and 9.5.
>
> Pushed with cosmetic adjustments ---

Thanks.

> Looking back over the thread, I see that you also proposed installing
> isolationtester and pg_isolation_regress for the benefit of extensions.
> I'm very much less excited about that idea. It'd be substantially more
> dead weight in typical installations, and I'm not sure that it'd be useful
> to common extensions, and I'm not eager to treat isolationtester's API
> and behavior as something we need to hold stable for extension use.

Fine by me. I have no particular problem expecting those to be installed
explicitly by ext devs who want to use them.