Thread: Another missing regression test

I discovered the hard way that there is no regression test for
copy in/out (COPY table TO stdout, etc).  This is not good.
pg_dump depends on copy in/out, and pg_dump is rather a critical
facility, wouldn't you say?

I'd suggest, in fact, that there ought to be a regression test
specifically exercising pg_dump and the resulting reload script.

            regards, tom lane

>
> I discovered the hard way that there is no regression test for
> copy in/out (COPY table TO stdout, etc).  This is not good.
> pg_dump depends on copy in/out, and pg_dump is rather a critical
> facility, wouldn't you say?
>
> I'd suggest, in fact, that there ought to be a regression test
> specifically exercising pg_dump and the resulting reload script.
>
>             regards, tom lane

What I have tried in the past is to dump the completed regression
database and reload it and dump it again, and compare the output.  Seems
to find problems, but did not do that for 6.3.*.


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