Re: multibyte regression tests

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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Luke Lonergan wrote:
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> >Andrew,
> >
> >
> >
> >>Good. So should we roll this up into the standard regression suite? Why
> >>are these tests separate? Is it just that they need a UTF8 encoded db
> >>rather than an SQL-ASCII encoded db?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I think that was the idea - the src/test/mb kit was already there and was
> >designed to create the UTF8 database and controlled circumstances for a
> >conversion test, so we used it for the similar testing for COPY.
> >
> >It could possibly be moved into the "make check" regression suite, if the
> >regression DB is always created with UTF8.
> >
> >Ayush may be able to add to this.
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> >
> >
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> It isn't. But we now have support in pg_regress for specifying the
> database explicitly, and we have just adapted the PL regression sets to
> use the standard infrastructure that the core and contrib regression
> sets use. Moreover, pg_regress.sh already has some support for multibyte
> encodings. So I think rolling up the mb tests at least to use a
> (possibly enhanced) pg_regress.sh would be a GoodThing (tm). Having a
> single and adequately featured regression harness should make adding
> specialised test sets easier - I imagine that would appeal to you guys
> at GreenPlum :-)
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
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