Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:13:31 -0500
From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>,
	Jason McManus <mcmanus.jason@gmail.com>,
	pgsql general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Notes on converting from MySQL 5.0.x to PostgreSQL
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:01:19AM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:41:53PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:39:04AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> It might be worth pointing out that mysql's replication falls
> > >> over if you so much as look at it crosseyed.  I have not had to
> > >> use it for production purposes, but I can tell you that the mysql
> > >> replication regression tests fail ... irreproducibly of course
> > >> ...  almost one time in two in Red Hat's build environment.
> > 
> > > Are those tests, or at least descriptions of them, available?
> > 
> > Sure, it's just the standard "make test" sequence in mysql's source.
> 
> Uh oh.  I'm a little worried about writing tests based on GPLed code
> for Slony-I or other replication systems.  Might these need to be
> clean-roomed?

Is there actually a lack of ideas for our regression tests, or a lack of
people/motivation to work on them?
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