Re: Two weeks to feature freeze - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: Two weeks to feature freeze
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Msg-id 3EF5A37E.5000104@Yahoo.com
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In response to Re: Two weeks to feature freeze  ("Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com>)
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Dann Corbit wrote:
>> PostgreSQL's regression tests (IMHO) are much better than 
>> MySQL's crash-me scripts.
> 
> They are less thorough in coverage, but not too bad.

Right, we are still missing this test that proves 10,000 CREATE+DROP 
TABLE will ensure that PostgreSQL is slower than MySQL, if you don't 
VACUUM the catalog ...

> 
> Here is what I suggest:
> 
> PostgreSQL has an excellent programming team.  Why not try to recruit a
> similar testing team?  I think it would strongly differentiate the tool
> set from similar free stuff.
> 
> Perhaps all that is needed is some sort of automated, formal reporting
> procedure.  For example, a large test set might be created that runs a
> thorough regression feature list.  When the test completes, a data file
> is emailed to some central repository, parsed, and stored in a database.

Here is what I suggest:

Get started :-)


Jan

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