Re: Planning for beta (was Re: Sketch of extending error handling - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Planning for beta (was Re: Sketch of extending error handling
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Msg-id 200407260029.i6Q0Tek23019@candle.pha.pa.us
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Simon Riggs wrote:
> >>
> >>> HIGH
> >>> 1. Documentation (sr) (now)
> >>> - Backup and Recovery chapter
> >>> - WAL chapter
> >>
> >> Docs, as always, can be delivered/improved throughout beta ...
> >
> > Yes, but without PITR docs there is no way to test the feature.
> > Many of our docs don't require docs for testing, but PITR does.
> 
> Shouldn't there be regression tests for doing that anyway?  Or isn't that 
> possible to do in the regression tests?

Good question.  Simon wants to build a test suite.  It appeared on his
TODO list.  However, I think it would be separate from the regression
tests.

Also, we need manual testing because people will do goofy things that
the test will not try, I am sure.  :-)

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