Re: Trouble with amcheck

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Douglas Doole <dougdoole(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Trouble with amcheck
Date: 2017-09-15 02:29:38
Message-ID: 20170915022938.qst4mdjnxb34jxi7@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2017-09-15 02:22:49 +0000, Douglas Doole wrote:
> Thanks all. Making and installing the contribs got me rolling again. (I
> tried "make world" but ran into trouble with the XML docs. But that's pain
> and suffering for another day.)
>
> I'd agree that "make installcheck-world" should imply that all prereqs are
> met - that's certainsly the normal behaviour for make.

I'm very unconvinced by this, given that one use of installcheck is to
run against an existing server. For which one might not even have access
to the relevant directories to install extensions into.

Regards,

Andres Freund

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