Re: pg_regress writes into source tree

On 12/18/2014 06:05 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 12/18/2014 03:02 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Alvaro Herrera
>> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
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>>> Another thing in that patch was that I had to add the sql/ directory to
>>> the source tree, but other than that .gitignore file it was empty.
>>> Maybe pg_regress should create the sql/ directory in the build dir
>>> if it
>>> doesn't exist. This is only a problem if a pg_regress suite only runs
>>> stuff from input/, because otherwise the sql/ dir already exists in the
>>> source.
>> +1 for having pg_regress create the sql/ directory when it does not
>> exist. Current behavior is annoying when modules having only tests in
>> input/...
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> That seems like a separate issue. I think Peter should commit his
> patch and backpatch it immediately, and we can deal with the missing
> sql directory when someone sends in a patch.

What's happened on this?

cheers

andrew