Re: Very confusing installcheck behavior with PGXS

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Very confusing installcheck behavior with PGXS
Date: 2016-01-07 23:28:02
Message-ID: 8DB510BE-4E06-4FAF-8719-54747E48FAE5@justatheory.com
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On Jan 7, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> wrote:

>>> Also worth noting: the only reason I'm using pg_regress is it's the easiest
>>> way to get a test cluster. If not for that, I'd just use pg_prove since I'm
>>> already using pgTap.
>>
>> In 9.5 you might want to "use PostgresNode" which allows you to initdb
>> and such.
>
> Oooh, thanks! I might well just copy that into my pgxntool utility.

Is this documented somewhere? If it’s Perl, seems like it’d only be useful for those of us who compile from source, yes?

David

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