Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 20:58:25 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
Cc: Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
 Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Very confusing installcheck behavior with PGXS
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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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