Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Not sure. There's something to be said for the equivalence Peter
>> proposes above. What you actually wanted, as I understood it, was
>> that "make world" plus "make check-world" should test absolutely
>> everything. I don't have a problem with the idea that some bits
>> of test scaffolding don't get built until you do "make check-world".
>> The real problem here is that "make check-world" missed some tests,
>> which Peter agrees is a bug.
> No, the problem is that worker_spi has no tests, so 'make check-world'
> never tries to build it at all. Something in the buildfarm does cause
> it to get built, though.
Well, if it has no tests *and* it's not getting installed, what's
the point of having it at all?
regards, tom lane
