Re: In-core regression tests for replication, cascading, archiving, PITR, etc. Michael Paquier - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: In-core regression tests for replication, cascading, archiving, PITR, etc. Michael Paquier
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Msg-id 13275.1389108434@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: In-core regression tests for replication, cascading, archiving, PITR, etc. Michael Paquier  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>)
Responses Re: In-core regression tests for replication, cascading, archiving, PITR, etc. Michael Paquier  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: In-core regression tests for replication, cascading, archiving, PITR, etc. Michael Paquier  (Mark Dilger <markdilger@yahoo.com>)
Re: In-core regression tests for replication, cascading, archiving, PITR, etc. Michael Paquier  ("Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
> Another idea would be to do something like chroot, but more lightweight, 
> using FUSE, private mount namespaces, or cgroups.

I thought the goal here was to have a testing framework that (a) is
portable to every platform we support and (b) doesn't require root
privileges to run.  None of those options sound like they'll help meet
those requirements.
        regards, tom lane



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