Re: LISTEN/NOTIFY regression tests - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: LISTEN/NOTIFY regression tests
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Msg-id 87brr68nbb.fsf@mailbox.samurai.com
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In response to Re: LISTEN/NOTIFY regression tests  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: LISTEN/NOTIFY regression tests  (Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at>)
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> We have previously speculated about setting up some sort of test
> harness program that can drive multiple backends through a
> coordinated series of operations.

It would also be useful to test other concurrent properties of the
backend: for example, "all interleavings of the following commands
yield the same result." I agree this would be useful, although I doubt
I'll personally implement it any time soon.

> If you search the archives you can probably find the previous
> discussions --- it was a couple years ago.

I searched a couple different archives of -hackers, but I didn't find
anything that looked relevant. Do you have a useful keyword from the
previous discussion, perhaps?

-Neil


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