Thread: pgsql: Print information about type of test and subdirectory before run

pgsql: Print information about type of test and subdirectory before run

From
Andres Freund
Date:
Print information about type of test and subdirectory before running tests.

When testing check-world it's hard to know what the test the test failure
output belongs to. The tap test output is especially problematic, partially
due to our practice of reusing test names like 001_basic.pl.

This isn't a real issue on the buildfarm, which invokes tests separately, but
locally and for CI it's quite annoying.

To fix, the test target provisos in Makefile.global.in now output
  echo "+++ (regress|isolation|tap) [install-]check in $(subdir) +++"
before running the tests.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220330165039.3zseuiraxfjkksf5@alap3.anarazel.de

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/28bdfa2adfc6afe4121614b500bfcb27b7c6b94c

Modified Files
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src/Makefile.global.in | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)


Re: pgsql: Print information about type of test and subdirectory before run

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
On 31.03.22 20:21, Andres Freund wrote:
> To fix, the test target provisos in Makefile.global.in now output
>    echo "+++ (regress|isolation|tap) [install-]check in $(subdir) +++"
> before running the tests.

For external extension modules (PGXS), subdir is usually not set, so 
this output looks a bit silly then.  Perhaps this should be conditional 
on subdir being set, something like

$(if $(subdir),echo ...)