From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
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Subject: Re: MSVC buildfarm critters are not running modules' TAP tests
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Comments: In-reply-to Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 9/8/19 5:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm.  Changing the buildfarm script would be an alternative way to
>> fix the issue so far as the buildfarm is concerned, but it doesn't
>> seem like it provides any useful way for one to manually invoke
>> the tests on Windows.  Or am I missing something about how that's
>> usually done?

> The invocation is:
>     vcregress.pl taptest [ PROVE_FLAGS=xxx ] directory

Sure, I saw that you can run one test that way ... but what do you
do when you want the equivalent of check-world?

(I'm surprised that vcregress hasn't already got a "world" option.
But at least there should be a determinate list of what you need
to run to get all the tests.)

			regards, tom lane