Re: MSVC installs too much stuff?

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 4:35 PM Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 at 13:27, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 12:47:29PM +1030, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > > When I was working on the test_json stuff yesterday, I noticed that
> > > there are some unexpected (by me at least) things installed when we do
> > > an MSVC build:
> > >
> > > $ ls -l bin| egrep 'regress|isolation'
> > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 pgrunner None 72192 Jan 30 07:51 isolationtester.exe
> > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 pgrunner None 112640 Jan 30 07:51 pg_isolation_regress.exe
> > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 pgrunner None 112128 Jan 30 07:51 pg_regress.exe
> > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 pgrunner None 112640 Jan 30 07:51 pg_regress_ecpg.exe
>
> These tools should be installed. They are useful, important in fact,
> for testing extensions.
>
> In *nix builds we install them to
> $PREFIX/lib/postgresql/pgxs/src/test/regress/pg_regress etc.
>
> On Windows we don't have PGXS. It probably doesn't make sense to
> install them to the pgxs dir. So putting them in bin is pretty
> reasonable.

Oh, Ha! Forget I spoke.

cheers

andrew

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