Hi,
On 2022-08-11 10:20:42 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > I also like that. I think we should take this opportunity for some
> > serious rationalization of this. Tests and associated data have grown
> > rather like Topsy, and we should fix that. So please don't feel too
> > constrained by current practice.
>
> I'm definitely -1 on that. Major rearrangement of the test scripts
> would be a huge blocking factor for almost any back-patch. I don't
> care much if you want to rearrange how the tests are invoked, but
> please don't touch the individual .sql and .pl scripts.
I don't precisely know what Andrew was thinking of, but the relocation of log
files for example doesn't require many changes to .pl files - one change to
Utils.pm. The one exception to that is 010_tab_completion.pl, which encodes
tmp_check/ in its output.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
