Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm not too happy with that approach, because packagers are going to
> tend to think they should package any files installed by install-world.
> The entire point of this change, IMO, is that the test modules should
> *not* get installed, certainly not by normal install targets. Being
> consistent with the existing contrib packaging is exactly not what we
> want.
>
> Maybe we should only allow check-world to run these tests, and not
> installcheck-world? That's kind of annoying, but what you are
> doing now seems to defeat the purpose altogether.
Hadn't thought of the packaging angle of this. I don't think packagers
really are as dumb as you suggest, but anyway implementing this idea
turned out to be simpler than I expected; here's a preliminary patch.
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