Re: PXGS vs TAP tests

On 6/20/21 10:45 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> The recipe for running TAP tests in src/Makefile.global doesn't work for
>> the PGXS case. If you try it you get something like this:
>> ...
>> Notice those bogus settings for top_builddir, PG_REGRESS and
>> REGRESS_SHLIB. The attached patch fixes this bug.
> OK, but does the 'prove_check' macro need similar adjustments?

No, PGXS doesn't support 'make check'. In the case of TAP tests it
really doesn't matter - you're not going to be running against a started
server anyway.

>
>> I removed the REGRESS_SHLIB setting altogether for the PGXS case - it's
>> not clear to me why we need it in a TAP test recipe at all.
> After some digging in the git history, it looks like it's there because
> of Noah's c09850992, which makes me wonder whether 017_shm.pl requires
> it. If so, it'd make more sense perhaps for that one test script
> to set up the environment variable than to have it cluttering every TAP
> run.

Yeah, I'll do some testing.

>
> (In any case, please don't push this till after beta2 is tagged.
> We don't need possible test instability right now.)
>
>

Yes, of course.

cheers

andre

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