Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> TBH, I can't muster much sympathy for that position. Make a test case
>> for it, and the problem goes away, not to mention that confidence in
>> whether it actually works (not just compiles) goes up a lot.
> I'm not sure there's an easy way to test it via pg_regress, but if
> somebody can come up with something, sure. But why stick to a rule
> that is inconvenient for no real benefit? Compiling everything in
> src/test/modules when someone runs 'make check-world' would take a
> handful of seconds and prevent developer errors like the one that
> started this thread. That seems like a slam-dunk from here,
> regardless of anything else.
I guess what I'm having a problem with is something that lives under
src/test/ and is not in fact intended as a test. If you're not interested
in making it into a live test, it's in the wrong place. You might as
well complain that you put C code under doc/src/sgml/ and it didn't get
compiled.
One idea is to put "check: all" into its makefile, if there's no prospect
of check doing something more than that.
regards, tom lane
