Re: PXGS vs TAP tests

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 01:24:04PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tests pass with the attached patch, which puts the setting in the
> Makefile for the recovery tests. The script itself doesn't need any
> changing.

+REGRESS_SHLIB=$(abs_top_builddir)/src/test/regress/regress$(DLSUFFIX)
+export REGRESS_SHLIB
It may be better to add a comment here explaning why REGRESS_SHLIB is
required in this Makefile then?

While on it, could we split those commands into multiple lines and
reduce the noise of future diffs? Something as simple as that would
make those prove commands easier to follow:
+cd $(srcdir) && TESTDIR='$(CURDIR)' \
+ $(with_temp_install) \
+ PGPORT='6$(DEF_PGPORT)' \
+ PG_REGRESS='$(CURDIR)/$(top_builddir)/src/test/regress/pg_regress' \
+ REGRESS_SHLIB= '$(abs_top_builddir)/src/test/regress/regress$(DLSUFFIX)' \
+ $(PROVE) $(PG_PROVE_FLAGS) $(PROVE_FLAGS) $(if $(PROVE_TESTS),$(PROVE_TESTS),t/*.pl)

There are other places where this could happen, but the TAP commands
are particularly long.
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Michael