Re: ECPG installcheck tests fail if PGDATABASE is set

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On March 18, 2018 4:06:18 PM PDT, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Hm ... pg_regress unsets PGDATABASE, along with the other related
>> environment variables, when it has a temp installation but not
>> when it doesn't. So what I don't understand is why your environment
>> doesn't also break every other regression test besides ecpg.

> All the others specify a database. The issue with the ecpg test is that
> it doesn't for two test cases.

Ah. Well, it doesn't seem unreasonable to want to test that case,
so I don't think "remove the test case" is the right answer.

Is it sane for pg_regress to unset PGDATABASE unconditionally? Not
sure, but if we're generally always specifying a value, maybe that's
OK.

regards, tom lane