Re: Install pg_regress by default

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Install pg_regress by default
Date: 2005-11-21 21:37:52
Message-ID: 20051121213752.GA1305@surnet.cl
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > This patch allows pg_regress to be installed by default. This was
> > proposed awhile back but never done, any objections if I commit this?
>
> I've forgotten the details, but it seems like there was something else
> that this depended on to be of any use? What are you envisioning people
> doing with it?

Actually it works, as you discovered some time ago, using PGXS. I use
it to test PL/php. (Yes, I'm hacking on that ugly thing.) I think
other module authors would also have some sort of regression testing;
having this in place eases things a bit.

I guess people whose packages need to support systems without PGXS
already have some testing harness in place, so it will be less useful to
them.

> BTW, I think you need an uninstall target too.

Ok.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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