On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 03:03:44PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> > The pg_upgrade test suite originated in an age when "make check-world" was
> > forbidden to depend on Perl; the choice was a shell script or a C program. We
> > do maintain vcregress.pl:upgradecheck(), a Windows-specific Perl port of the
> > suite. Maintaining both versions has been tedious. I'd welcome a
> > high-quality rewrite using src/test/perl facilities.
>
> I need to check in my archives, but I recall having a WIP patch doing that:
> - remove the shell scripts in src/bin/pg_upgrade.
> - remove upgradecheck in vcregress.pl.
> - add a TAP test in src/bin/pg_upgrade to run the upgrade tests.
> So you are interested by that?
No, not really. A WIP patch is the easy part. The bulk of the work is giving
it all the coverage, debuggability, and robustness of the current harness.
