On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> wrote:
> The rule that gets executed if you do `make installcheck` with something
> using PGXS is
>
> pgxs.mk: $(pg_regress_installcheck) $(REGRESS_OPTS) $(REGRESS)
>
> where $(pg_regress_installcheck) is set in Makefile.global.in to
>
>> pg_regress_installcheck = $(top_builddir)/src/test/regress/pg_regress
>> --inputdir=$(srcdir) --bindir='$(bindir)' $(pg_regress_locale_flags)
>> $(EXTRA_REGRESS_OPTS)
>
> The problem here is that in a PGXS make, srcdir is set to '.'[1], and
> --inputdir is specified a second time in REGRESS_OPTS. Normally that works
> OK (for some reason ignoring what's in ./sql), but if you happen to have a
> file in your test/sql directory that matches a file in ./sql, pg_regress
> runs the first file and not the second.
Stupid question time: why in the world would you have that?
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