From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>
Cc: Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Very confusing installcheck behavior with PGXS
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 20:58:25 -0300
Message-ID: <20160107235825.GA550344@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Also worth noting: the only reason I'm using pg_regress is it's the easiest
> >>> way to get a test cluster. If not for that, I'd just use pg_prove since I'm
> >>> already using pgTap.
> >>
> >> In 9.5 you might want to "use PostgresNode" which allows you to initdb
> >> and such.
> >
> > Oooh, thanks! I might well just copy that into my pgxntool utility.
>
> Is this documented somewhere?
Not in detail. Patches welcome; see the "regress-tap" sect1 in
doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml.
> If it’s Perl, seems like it’d only be useful for those of us who compile from source, yes?
Feel free to submit patches for discussion to install the modules. We
already install pg_regress under lib/pgxs/src/test/regress/ so I see no
reason we couldn't install the Perl test modules somewhere. If you
hurry you can still make it to 9.6's last commitfest.
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