Re: PSA: we lack TAP test coverage on NetBSD and OpenBSD - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: PSA: we lack TAP test coverage on NetBSD and OpenBSD
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Msg-id 20190118004338.GC1883@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: PSA: we lack TAP test coverage on NetBSD and OpenBSD  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 07:21:08PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Sorry, I don't buy this line of argument.  Reasonable test design requires
> making cost/benefit tradeoffs: the cost to run the test over and over,
> and the cost to maintain the test itself (e.g. fix portability issues in
> it) have to be balanced against the probability of it finding something
> useful.  I judge that the chance of this particular test finding something
> is small, and I've had quite enough of the maintenance costs.

Yes, I agree with Tom's line of thoughts here.  It seems to me that
just dropping this part of the test is just but fine.
--
Michael

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