Re: Portability issues in TAP tests

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Fanghaenel <tfanghaenel(at)salesforce(dot)com>, Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Portability issues in TAP tests
Date: 2014-07-22 03:39:45
Message-ID: 5356.1406000385@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 07/21/2014 02:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I had the same feeling about the Perl on RHEL6 ;-). The TAP tests
>> will need to be a great deal more portable than they've proven so far
>> before they'll really be useful for anything much. I trust we're
>> committed to making that happen.

> I'd be rather inclined to remove them from the check-world and
> installcheck-world targets until we have dealt with the issues people
> have identified.

I think it would be reasonable to do that in the 9.4 branch, since
it's a bit hard to argue that the TAP tests are production grade
at the moment. We could leave them there in HEAD.

regards, tom lane

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