Re: how to run encoding-dependent tests by default

On 2019-06-23 21:44, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2019-06-17 18:39, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Basically something like:
>>
>> \gset SELECT my_encodings_are_compatible() AS compatible
>> \if :compatible
>> test;
>> contents;
>> \endif
>
> Cool, that works out quite well. See attached patch. I flipped the
> logic around to make it \quit if not compatible. That way the
> alternative expected file is shorter and doesn't need to be updated all
> the time. But it gets the job done either way.

Small patch update: The collate.linux.utf8 test also needs to check in a
similar manner that all the locales it is using are installed. This
should get the cfbot run passing.

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