"Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The difficulty in testing these is that they require configuration
>> files, which the regression tests really can't install. (If the
>> configuration were all inside the database it wouldn't be such a
>> problem, but that's a lost cause for 8.3...)
> How about putting the sample config files in contrib/tsearch, and
> copying them at "make install"? We have the capability to install
> contrib modules at the beginning of regression tests, right?
No, we have the ability to run a contrib module that's already been
installed. pg_regress cannot assume it has write privileges on
$SHAREDIR --- consider the "make installcheck" case.
regards, tom lane
