Re: Heap page diagnostic/test functions (v2) - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Heap page diagnostic/test functions (v2)
Date
Msg-id 29103.1175996895@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Heap page diagnostic/test functions (v2)  ("Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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"Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> If we see it as a manual test tool only, contrib is OK. But it has to be
> in the backend to be usable in the regression test suite, so thats where
> it was designed to go.

The core regression tests have depended on some contrib stuff forever,
so the above argument holds no water.

I'm uncomfortable with putting these things in core because I suspect
it's not hard to crash the backend (or worse) by feeding one of them
artfully corrupted data.

            regards, tom lane

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