Thread: Re: Planning for beta (was Re: Sketch of extending error handling
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Simon Riggs wrote: > >> > >>> HIGH > >>> 1. Documentation (sr) (now) > >>> - Backup and Recovery chapter > >>> - WAL chapter > >> > >> Docs, as always, can be delivered/improved throughout beta ... > > > > Yes, but without PITR docs there is no way to test the feature. > > Many of our docs don't require docs for testing, but PITR does. > > Shouldn't there be regression tests for doing that anyway? Or isn't that > possible to do in the regression tests? Good question. Simon wants to build a test suite. It appeared on his TODO list. However, I think it would be separate from the regression tests. Also, we need manual testing because people will do goofy things that the test will not try, I am sure. :-) -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001+ If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania19073
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Also, we need manual testing because people will do goofy things that > the test will not try, I am sure. :-) Agreed, but just want to make sure that Simon realizes that this 'level' of documentation is required for release, not for beta ... in fact, be nice if we could use those 'goofy things' as a pseudo example of where PITR is useful ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Also, we need manual testing because people will do goofy things that > > the test will not try, I am sure. :-) > > Agreed, but just want to make sure that Simon realizes that this 'level' > of documentation is required for release, not for beta ... in fact, be > nice if we could use those 'goofy things' as a pseudo example of where > PITR is useful ... Agreed. We don't need eligance at this stage, just instructions for people to follow. Simon, don't kill yourself on the docs. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001+ If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania19073
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 02:12, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Also, we need manual testing because people will do goofy things that > > the test will not try, I am sure. :-) > > Agreed, but just want to make sure that Simon realizes that this 'level' > of documentation is required for release, not for beta ... in fact, be > nice if we could use those 'goofy things' as a pseudo example of where > PITR is useful ... > I think you're arguing in favour of me not completing the todo list, which is great cos I wasn't going to be able to. :) ...and we can do more later. Best Regards, Simon Riggs