Re: dropping table in testcase alter_table.sql

On fre, 2011-07-08 at 22:27 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Ashutosh Bapat
> <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> > I think, tab1 and tab2 are too common names, for anyone to pick up for the
> > tables. Also, the test alter_table.sql is dropping many other tables (even
> > those which have undergone renaming), then why not these two?
>
> Beats me, but I don't see any particular value to changing it.

It has occurred to me a few times that it could be useful to clarify the
approach here. If we could somehow have a separable cleanup step for
every test, and eliminate interdependencies between tests, we could more
easily support a number of uses cases such as creating a completely
populated regression test database for playing, or running tests in
random order or in differently parallelized scenarios.