"Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> what really is the motivation for keeping some of the tested binaries in the sourcetree when doing installcheck?
As opposed to what? We're certainly not going to *install* regress.so,
and I can't see requiring contrib to be there either. These are test
files, not part of the installation-under-test.
regards, tom lane