On 10/12/2018 12:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> I'm asking again, what exactly do we test by having these types in the
>> dump? They're bog standard types, there's nothing new for pg_dump to
>> test with them. No weird typmod rules, no weird parse-time type mapping,
>> nothing?
> That's a pretty fair point. The types' I/O functions will be exercised
> well enough by the regression tests themselves, and it's hard to see what
> more test coverage is gained by including them in pg_dump/pg_upgrade
> testing. Maybe we should just drop those tables and be done with it.
>
If you're happy with that then go for it. It will be less work for me ;-)
cheers
andrew
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