Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 03/27/2014 11:56 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Also, there's the vcregress.pl business. The way it essentially
>> duplicates pg_upgrade/test.sh is rather messy; and now that
>> test_decoding also needs similar treatment, it's not looking so good.
>> Should we consider redoing that stuff in a way that allows both MSVC and
>> make-based systems to run those tests?
> Well, to start with people need to get out of the habit of writing tests
> in shell script.
What alternative do you propose? We have a policy of not requiring Perl
to build/test, so don't suggest that.
I'm inclined to think the problem with test.sh is not so much the language
that it's in, as that it's single-purpose. Maybe it has to be given the
nature of the pg_upgrade tests, but we should look for some generality.
I'd be happy if we had shell-based infrastructure on non-Windows and a
separate Perl equivalent for Windows, as long as we didn't have to start
from scratch for each special-configuration test scenario.
regards, tom lane
