Re: improving speed of make check-world

On 2/24/15 3:06 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Here is an updated patch.
>
> Nice patch. This is going to save a lot of resources.
>
> An update of vcregress.pl is necessary. This visibly just consists in
> updating the options that have been renamed in pg_regress (don't mind
> testing any code sent out).

Well, that turns out to be more complicated than initially thought.
Apparently, the msvc has a bit of a different idea of what check and
installcheck do with respect to temporary installs. For instance,
vcregress installcheck does not use psql from the installation but from
the build tree. vcregress check uses psql from the build tree but other
binaries (initdb, pg_ctl) from the temporary installation. It is hard
for me to straighten this out by just looking at the code. Attached is
a patch that shows the idea, but I can't easily take it further than that.

> - {"top-builddir", required_argument, NULL, 11},
> + {"datadir", required_argument, NULL, 12},
> In pg_regress.c datadir is a new option but it is used nowhere, so it
> could be as well removed.

Yeah, that's an oversight that is easily corrected.