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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up
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On Thursday 28 May 2009 20:03:38 Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> > Right.  Shall we try to spec out exactly what our conversion
> > requirements are?  Here's a shot:
>
> [...]
>
> > Comments?  Other considerations?
>
> Certainly sounds reasonable to me.  I'd be really suprised if that's
> really all that hard to accomplish.  I'd be happy to help with some
> testing too if we feel that the current git repo is in reasonable shape
> to do that testing against (or someone has another).

Sounds like writing a comprehensive test suite against Tom's spec would be the 
first step.  And then this test suite can be run against various conversion 
tools and configurations thereof.