Re: Test to dump and restore objects left behind by regression

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Test to dump and restore objects left behind by regression
Date: 2025-03-31 21:17:15
Message-ID: 730EAD98-E876-4706-A9B0-4606ACB1B85B@yesql.se
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> On 28 Mar 2025, at 19:12, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 2025-Mar-28, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> I think instead of going this direction, we really need to create a
>> separately-purposed script that simply creates "one of everything"
>> without doing anything else (except maybe loading a little data).
>> I believe it'd be a lot easier to remember to add to that when
>> inventing new SQL than to remember to leave something behind from the
>> core regression tests. This would also be far faster to run than any
>> approach that involves picking a random subset of the core test
>> scripts.
>
> FWIW this sounds closely related to what I tried to do with
> src/test/modules/test_ddl_deparse; it's currently incomplete, but maybe
> we can use that as a starting point.

Given where we are in the cycle, it seems to make sense to stick to using the
schedule we already have rather than invent a new process for generating it,
and work on that for 19?

--
Daniel Gustafsson

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