Re: [HACKERS] TAP tests - installcheck vs check - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: [HACKERS] TAP tests - installcheck vs check
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Msg-id CAB7nPqQc8_KntsYHTV7Dq=V+JEteLP12UdPWtK_=FwH-cf+dBQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to [HACKERS] TAP tests - installcheck vs check  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 7:29 AM, Andrew Dunstan
<andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> AFAICT, unlike the pg_regress checks, which in the installcheck case run
> against a running instance of postgres, for TAP tests the only
> difference is that that for the check case a temp install is done,
> possibly with some extra contrib modules. Is that correct? If is is, why
> aren't we providing an installcheck target for tests like recover. In at
> least one case (buildfarmn jacana) installs are quite expensive (2 or 3
> minutes) and if they are pointless as seems to be the case here why
> can't we just avoid them?

install.pl deploys by default the dll of modules needed for the tests,
so no objections. Don't you think the TAP scripts in src/test/perl
should be installed as well? I think that this would make sense for
consistency with what other Nix platforms do, but there is no real
installation of PGXS there. So perhaps they could be deployed in a
different path like scripts/perl?
-- 
Michael
VMware vCenter Server
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