Re: regression.out and regression.diff

Tom Lane writes:

> I have no idea why Peter thinks 'make installcheck' should be less
> reliable than 'make check'. If installcheck fails for you, let's
> see that too.

In the test run that Vince had posted to his web tool, the server process
apparently didn't have write permission to the source tree, so all the
tests that did a COPY failed, plus all subsequent tests that depended on
those tables. Additionally, the installcheck is also prone to fail if
template1 was initialized with a different multibyte encoding, if there
was a different locale during initdb, or if there's something fishy in
postgresql.conf. At least I wouldn't accept installcheck output as a
final result before seeing 'check'.

Additionally, make check also tests 'make install' and 'initdb'
robustness, which installcheck doesn't do, so the former should be
preferred as final test result.

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