On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 08:19:39PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> So I am planning to seriously focus soon on this stuff, basically
> using the TAP tests as base infrastructure for this regression test
> suite. First, does using the TAP tests sound fine?
Yes.
> On the top of my mind I got the following items that should be tested:
> - WAL replay: from archive, from stream
> - hot standby and read-only queries
> - node promotion
> - recovery targets and their interferences when multiple targets are
> specified (XID, name, timestamp, immediate)
> - timelines
> - recovery_target_action
> - recovery_min_apply_delay (check that WAL is fetch from a source at
> some correct interval, can use a special restore_command for that)
> - archive_cleanup_command (check that command is kicked at each restart point)
> - recovery_end_command (check that command is kicked at the end of recovery)
> - timeline jump of a standby after reconnecting to a promoted node
Those sound good. The TAP suites still lack support for any Windows target.
If you're inclined to fix that, it would be a great contribution. The more we
accrue tests before doing that, the harder it will be to dig out.
