Re: running make check with only specified tests

Tom Lane wrote:

> Anyway, I have no great objection to the proposed patch, I'm just dubious
> that it's really worth the trouble. If you do go through with it, I'd
> suggest adding an installcheck-with variant.
>
> In the bikeshedding department, maybe "-tests" instead of "-with"?

No objection to the proposed idea either, but I wanted to point out that
I had the idea sometime ago that each test would declare which other
test it depended on; so if you specify one to run in isolation, the ones
it depended on got run beforehand. I never got around to implementing
it because running the whole bunch doesn't take that long anyway, but if
for some reason you want to run a specific test over and over, it is
useful.

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