Re: In-core regression tests for replication, cascading, archiving, PITR, etc.

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: In-core regression tests for replication, cascading, archiving, PITR, etc.
Date: 2013-12-03 08:32:17
Message-ID: CAB7nPqTi-u_54xJARXT6H=bF-T498AJnG=PU5Rn6AB79FmYXSg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> At the same time, I'm pretty skeptical that any simple regression-test
> type facility would have caught the bugs we've fixed lately ...
The replication bug would have been reproducible at least, Heikki
produced a simple test case able to reproduce it. For the MultiXact
stuff... well some more infrastructure in core might be needed before
having a wrapper calling test scripts aimed to manipulate cluster of
nodes.
--
Michael

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