Re: ISN patch that applies cleanly with git apply

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jan Otto <asche(at)me(dot)com>
Subject: Re: ISN patch that applies cleanly with git apply
Date: 2010-10-02 20:10:31
Message-ID: 10125.1286050231@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut asked Jan to produce a regression test for the ISN
> contrib module, which he is apparently working on. I would like to see
> him more clearly explaining how that will work though - so far, it's
> really just been described in very broad strokes.

Even more to the point, what about a link to the relevant changes in the
standard? It's impossible for anyone to tell whether these changes are
sane in a vacuum, and a regression test will prove nothing at all except
perhaps self-consistency.

regards, tom lane

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