Re: List TAP test files in makefiles

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> FWIW, I find the autoconf/make test run experience completely unusable. It
> literally is made me embark on getting away from it. I don't understand how
> people stand it.

Interesting perspective, because from where I sit the testing aspect
is the weakest part of our meson setup: it seems to be very much
all-or-nothing, whereas the makefiles allow you to run any particular
test suite you want. Maybe this is just a lack of documentation?
There is still not a word in

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/regress-run.html

about how to accomplish any of those effects under meson.

I find the lack of any equivalent to installcheck to be
particularly distressing, since it means you can't repeat
a test without paying for "make temp-install" every time.
Admittedly that doesn't work for a test that needs particular
non-default installation settings, but that's a minority
of our tests.

regards, tom lane