Re: Testing of MVCC

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Matt Miller <mattm(at)epx(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Testing of MVCC
Date: 2005-08-16 01:53:37
Message-ID: 20360.1124157217@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure there are re-implementations of Expect out there that
>> don't use Tcl; would you be happier with, say, a perl-based tool?

> Yes, because we already have a dependency on perl. But don't be
> surprised if we can't find such a beast, especially one that runs under
> the weird MSys DTK perl -

[ digs... ] It looks like what I was remembering is
http://search.cpan.org/~lbrocard/Test-Expect-0.29/lib/Test/Expect.pm
which seems to leave all the interesting problems (like driving more
than one program-under-test) to the user's own devices. Sigh.

regards, tom lane

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