Re: Planning for beta (was Re: Sketch of extending error handling

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Planning for beta (was Re: Sketch of extending error handling
Date: 2004-07-26 00:29:40
Message-ID: 200407260029.i6Q0Tek23019@candle.pha.pa.us
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Simon Riggs wrote:
> >>
> >>> HIGH
> >>> 1. Documentation (sr) (now)
> >>> - Backup and Recovery chapter
> >>> - WAL chapter
> >>
> >> Docs, as always, can be delivered/improved throughout beta ...
> >
> > Yes, but without PITR docs there is no way to test the feature.
> > Many of our docs don't require docs for testing, but PITR does.
>
> Shouldn't there be regression tests for doing that anyway? Or isn't that
> possible to do in the regression tests?

Good question. Simon wants to build a test suite. It appeared on his
TODO list. However, I think it would be separate from the regression
tests.

Also, we need manual testing because people will do goofy things that
the test will not try, I am sure. :-)

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