Re: Rework help interface of vcregress.pl

At Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:45:33 +0900, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in <CAB7nPqQ_8xYDBv0R+k28E+79WY=TCuFG+DGy_GqcyprE5d6Kow(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
> Hi all,
> (Windows-only be careful)
>
> Horiguchi-san has mentioned yesterday
> (http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160414.172539.34325458.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp)
> that we are missing a couple of modes in vcregress.pl in its help
> message: modulescheck, bincheck, recoverycheck.
>
> The help message given to users is ugly and unreadable:
> $ perl vcregress.pl
> Usage: vcregress.pl
> <check|installcheck|plcheck|contribcheck|isolationcheck|ecpgcheck|upgradecheck>
> [schedule]

This seems to be accumultion of gradually edting for every check
modes.

> So I would like to suggest the attached patch that makes things easier
> to understand:
> $ perl vcregress.pl
> Usage: vcregress.pl <mode> [ <schedule> ]

It is an issue of this patch, but the command line is not
vcregress.pl, but vcregress[.bat]. However nobody would care
about the difference.

> Options for <mode>:
> bincheck run tests of utilities in src/bin/
> check deploy instance and run regression tests on it
> contribcheck run tests of modules in contrib/
> ecpgcheck run regression tests of ECPG driver
> installcheck run regression tests on existing instance
> isolationcheck run isolation tests
> modulescheck run tests of modules in src/test/modules
> plcheck run tests of PL languages
> recoverycheck run recovery test suite
> upgradecheck run tests of pg_upgrade
>
> Options for <schedule>:
> serial serial mode
> parallel parallel mode

This looks good to me but since <schedule> is optional, some
description about default behavior would be needed.

regards,

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center