Re: 9.6 TAP tests and extensions

On 14 November 2016 at 14:55, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> 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.

As Andres pointed out elsewhere this is only half the picture. It
should really add PGXS support for ISOLATION_TESTS and bringing up the
test harness too.

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