Re: pg_regress: referencing shared objects from tests

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jorgen Austvik - Sun Norway <Jorgen(dot)Austvik(at)Sun(dot)COM>
Cc: Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_regress: referencing shared objects from tests
Date: 2008-05-28 14:27:19
Message-ID: 27982.1211984839@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jorgen Austvik - Sun Norway <Jorgen(dot)Austvik(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
> we would like to be able to use and ship pg_regress and the PostgreSQL
> test suite independently of the PostgreSQL build environment, for
> testing and maybe even as a separate package to be build and shipped
> with the OS for others to test their setup. Does this sound like a sane
> and OK thing to do?

The RPM packages have done this since approximately forever. You might
want to look at the patches used there.

regards, tom lane

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