Re: AW: Re: GiST for 7.1 !!

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:
> >> I'm unhappy again. Bad enough we accepted a new feature during beta;
> >> now we're going to expect an absolutely virgin contrib module to work
> >> everywhere in order to pass regress tests?
>
> > Last I checked, two contrib modules had to be built for regression
> > testing.
>
> Sure, but they've been there awhile. All of my concerns here are
> schedule-driven: do we really want to be wringing out a new contrib
> module, to the point where it will run everywhere, before we can
> release 7.1?

Hrmmm ... just a thought here, but how about a potential 'interactive'
regression test, where it asks if you want to run regress on GiST? If so,
do it, if not, ignore it ... ?