I would like to see a global setting of some kind that specifies which
extra tests are allowed to be run. This could be a configure argument
or an environment/make variable. Rather than make it a list of tests,
specify which facilities you have available, e.g.,
PG_EXTRA_TEST_FACILTITIES='tcpip openssl slapd'
Then you could combine that with the actual build configuration to skip
tests that the build doesn't support.
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