Re: pg_regress: referencing shared objects from tests

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jorgen Austvik - Sun Norway <Jorgen(dot)Austvik(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
>> we would like to be able to use and ship pg_regress and the PostgreSQL
>> test suite independently of the PostgreSQL build environment, for
>> testing and maybe even as a separate package to be build and shipped
>> with the OS for others to test their setup. Does this sound like a sane
>> and OK thing to do?
>
> The RPM packages have done this since approximately forever. You might
> want to look at the patches used there.

Hi,

yes [1] is the same that we have been using internally.

Let me reformulate my question: would it be better to include something
like the attached patch in PostgreSQL, than have every distributor of
the tests apply it?

[1]
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/postgresql/F-9/postgresql-test.patch?rev=1.3&view=auto

-J
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