Thread: Regression tests fails to start on system without unix sockets.

The regression tests will fail to start on a system that doesn't
have, or wasn't compiled for, unix domain sockets.

The pg_regress script will start the postmaster with the -i
option in case of QNX and BEOS, but not for instance in case of
WIN32.

I see some options to fix this:
- Always start with -i
- Make the "unix_sockets" variable depend on HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS intead of listen the OSs.


Kurt

Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be> writes:
> The regression tests will fail to start on a system that doesn't
> have, or wasn't compiled for, unix domain sockets.
> I see some options to fix this:
> - Always start with -i
> - Make the "unix_sockets" variable depend on
>   HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS intead of listen the OSs.

The second way is the way it should have been done all along.

Probably the best fix is to add a command-line switch to pg_regress
to instruct it to use -i, and then have the makefile test
HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS to decide whether to pass that switch.  This way,
hand invocation of the script could easily run the test both ways,
on machines where that's possible.
        regards, tom lane

Added to TODO:
Allow the regression tests to start postmaster with -i so the testscan be run on systems that don't support unix-domain
sockets



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Tom Lane wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be> writes:
> > The regression tests will fail to start on a system that doesn't
> > have, or wasn't compiled for, unix domain sockets.
> > I see some options to fix this:
> > - Always start with -i
> > - Make the "unix_sockets" variable depend on
> >   HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS intead of listen the OSs.
> 
> The second way is the way it should have been done all along.
> 
> Probably the best fix is to add a command-line switch to pg_regress
> to instruct it to use -i, and then have the makefile test
> HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS to decide whether to pass that switch.  This way,
> hand invocation of the script could easily run the test both ways,
> on machines where that's possible.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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