Re: [HACKERS] \if, \elseif, \else, \endif (was Re: PSQL commands: \quit_if, \quit_unless) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> writes:
> [ 0001.if_endif.v21.diff ]

Starting to poke at this... the proposal to add prove checks for psql
just to see whether \if respects ON_ERROR_STOP seems like an incredibly
expensive way to test a rather minor point.  On my machine, "make check"
in bin/psql goes from zero time to close to 8 seconds.  I'm not really
on board with adding that kind of time to every buildfarm run for the
foreseeable future just for this.

Couldn't we get close to the same coverage by adding a single-purpose
test script to the main regression tests?  Along the lines of
    \set ON_ERROR_STOP 1    \if invalid    \echo should not get here    \endif    \echo should not get here either

You could imagine just dropping that at the end of psql.sql, but I
think probably a separate script is worth the trouble.
        regards, tom lane