Re: In-core regression tests for replication, cascading, archiving, PITR, etc.

On 09/25/2015 09:29 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Amir Rohan <amir(dot)rohan(at)mail(dot)com
> <mailto:amir(dot)rohan(at)mail(dot)com>> wrote:
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> On 08/14/2015 06:32 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:

> > I am rather happy with the shape of this patch now, so feel free
> to review it...
> > Regards,
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> Michael, I've ran these and it worked fine for me.
> See attached patch with a couple of minor fixes.
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> Thanks! I still think that we could improve a bit more the way
> parametrization is done in postgresql.conf when a node is initialized by
> appending a list of parameters or have a set of hardcoded behaviors
> including a set of default parameters and their values... But well
> feedback is welcome regarding that. I also arrived at the conclusion
> that it would be better to place the new package file in src/test/perl
> instead of src/test/recovery to allow any users of the TAP tests to have
> it in their PERL5LIB path and to be able to call the new routines to
> create and manipulate nodes.
> --
> Michael

Having a subcommand in Greg's PEG (http://github.com/gregs1104/peg)
that allows you to create one of several "canned" clusters would be
convenient as well, for manual testing and folling around with features.

Amir