Re: Convert sepgsql tests to TAP

I took a quick look at the patch and I like that we standardize things a
bit. But one thing I am not a fan of are all the use of sed and awk in
the Perl script. I would prefer if that logic happened all in Perl,
especially since we have some of it in Perl (e.g. chomp). Also I wonder
if we should not use IPC::Run to do the tests since we already depend on
it for the other TAP tests.

I have not yet set up an VM with selinux to try the patch out for real
but will do so later.

On 5/13/24 8:16 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> - Do we want to keep the old way to run the test?  I don't know all the
> testing scenarios that people might be interested in, but of course it
> would also be good to cut down on the duplication in the test files.

I cannot see why. Having two ways to run the tests seems only like a bad
thing to me.

> - If you go through the pre-test checks in contrib/sepgsql/test_sepgsql,
> I have converted most of these checks to the Perl script.  Some of the
> checks are obsolete, because they check whether the database has been
> correctly initialized, which is now done by the TAP script anyway.  One
> check that I wasn't sure about is the
>
> # 'psql' command must be executable from test domain
>
> The old test was checking the installation tree, which I guess could be
> set up in random ways.  But do we need this kind of check if we are
> using a temporary installation?

Yeah, that does not seem necessary.

Andreas