Re: LISTEN/NOTIFY regression tests

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: LISTEN/NOTIFY regression tests
Date: 2003-11-21 02:31:20
Message-ID: 87brr68nbb.fsf@mailbox.samurai.com
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> We have previously speculated about setting up some sort of test
> harness program that can drive multiple backends through a
> coordinated series of operations.

It would also be useful to test other concurrent properties of the
backend: for example, "all interleavings of the following commands
yield the same result." I agree this would be useful, although I doubt
I'll personally implement it any time soon.

> If you search the archives you can probably find the previous
> discussions --- it was a couple years ago.

I searched a couple different archives of -hackers, but I didn't find
anything that looked relevant. Do you have a useful keyword from the
previous discussion, perhaps?

-Neil

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