Re: [PATCH] minor reloption regression tests improvement

Nikolay Shaplov <dhyan@nataraj.su>

From: Nikolay Shaplov <dhyan@nataraj.su>
To: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-03-07T17:50:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
В письме от понедельник, 7 марта 2022 г. 20:04:49 MSK пользователь Greg Stark 
написал:
> I don't think this is worth spending time adding tests for. I get what
> you're saying that this is at least semi-intentional behaviour and
> desirable behaviour so it should have tests ensuring that it continues
> to work. But it's not documented behaviour and the test is basically
> testing that the implementation is this specific implementation.
> 
> I don't think the test is really a bad idea but neither is it really
> very useful and I think it's not worth having people spend time
> reviewing and discussing. I'm leaning to saying this patch is
> rejected.

This is a regression test. To test if behaviour brocken or not.

Actually I came to the idea of the test when I wrote my big reloption patch. 
I've broken this behaviour by mistake and  did not notice it as it have not 
been properly tested. So I decided it would be goo to add test to it before 
adding and big patches.

-- 
Nikolay Shaplov aka Nataraj
Fuzzing Engineer at Postgres Professional
Matrix IM: @dhyan:nataraj.su






Commits

  1. Test that it works to RESET an invalid reloption