Re: ISN patch that applies cleanly with git apply

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <peter.geoghegan86@gmail.com>
Cc: PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Jan Otto <asche@me.com>
Date: 2010-10-02T20:10:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Geoghegan <peter.geoghegan86@gmail.com> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut asked Jan to produce a regression test for the ISN
> contrib module, which he is apparently working on. I would like to see
> him more clearly explaining how that will work though - so far, it's
> really just been described in very broad strokes.

Even more to the point, what about a link to the relevant changes in the
standard?  It's impossible for anyone to tell whether these changes are
sane in a vacuum, and a regression test will prove nothing at all except
perhaps self-consistency.

			regards, tom lane