Re: running make check with only specified tests

On 01/26/2014 12:08 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> I've often wanted to be able to run "make check" and just have it run
>> the small number of tests I am interested in. Here's a tiny patch along
>> those lines. It creates a new targe which I have called "check-with" for
>> want of a better name. And with it I can do:
>> $ make check-with TESTS="json jsonb"
> The vast majority of the regression tests have interdependencies, which
> would make any feature along these lines fairly useless IME. (And no,
> I'm not interested in converting the tests to a no-dependencies style.)
>
> Also, the tests themselves don't take that long, especially in parallel
> mode. If you need to speed up repeated testing, it's more profitable to
> avoid the install/initdb overhead of a "make check". I use a small
> script that just reinstalls the postgres executable and does "make
> installcheck-parallel" when I'm doing iterative development.
>
>

I have something similar, and prodded by your email I've just improved
it a bit ;-) But it doesn't work so well if you're changing the catalog,
as you need an initdb anyway. And there are are some cases (the one I
happen to be working on being one of them) where the tests have no prior
dependencies.

cheers

andrew