Re: Add more regression tests for dbcommands - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Add more regression tests for dbcommands
Date
Msg-id 21407.1372345044@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Add more regression tests for dbcommands  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Add more regression tests for dbcommands
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On 6/26/13 12:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> (I like to
>> point at mysql's regression tests, which take well over an hour even on
>> fast machines.  If lots of tests are so helpful, why is their bug rate
>> no better than ours?)

> Tests are not (primarily) there to prevent bugs.

Really?  Pray tell, what do you think they're for?  Particularly code
coverage tests, which is what these are?
        regards, tom lane



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