Re: Documenting PROVE_TESTS in section of TAP tests

On 17 February 2018 at 22:03, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The section of the documentation dedicated to TAP tests mentions
> PROVE_FLAGS:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/regress-tap.html
>
> I think that it would be a good idea to mention PROVE_TESTS as well. I
> personally use and abuse of it, and documenting it instead of keeping it
> hidden in Makefile.global.in is good for new developers and testers.
>
> Proposal of patch attached.
>
>
Good plan. I thought it was already mentioned, but that mention is only
in src/test/perl/README where I doubt people routinely running the tests
will see it. I think I put it there mainly to help people writing/fixing
tests.

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