Re: Getting rid of regression test input/ and output/ files - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Getting rid of regression test input/ and output/ files
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Msg-id 60282f3f-c0d9-2061-0db5-32ae9333a116@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Getting rid of regression test input/ and output/ files  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Getting rid of regression test input/ and output/ files  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 19.12.21 00:53, Tom Lane wrote:
> 2. Export the values from pg_regress as environment variables,
> and then add a way for the test scripts to read those variables.
> I was a bit surprised to realize that we didn't have any way
> to do that already --- psql has \setenv, so why did we never
> invent \getenv?

You can do

\set foo `echo $ENVVAR`

but that's probably not portable enough for your purpose.



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