Re: 9.6 TAP tests and extensions

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: 9.6 TAP tests and extensions
Date: 2016-11-14 06:55:18
Message-ID: CAMsr+YEpg0rwKVjuV7grd+VrLDWKba3Pz=FRy5GkzKpxeAVPcg@mail.gmail.com
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On 27 October 2016 at 00:42, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>> On 2016-09-23 16:04:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Looking back over the thread, I see that you also proposed installing
>>> isolationtester and pg_isolation_regress for the benefit of extensions.
>>> I'm very much less excited about that idea. It'd be substantially more
>>> dead weight in typical installations, and I'm not sure that it'd be useful
>>> to common extensions, and I'm not eager to treat isolationtester's API
>>> and behavior as something we need to hold stable for extension use.
>>
>> FWIW, I'd be quite happy if it were installed. Running isolationtester
>> when compiling extensions against distribution postgres packages would
>> be quite useful.
>
> +1.

Patch attached.

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