Re: pg_upgrade automatic testing

On lör, 2011-09-03 at 19:58 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Anyway, after giving up on that I went back to plan A, namely install
> regress.so and friends into $libdir.  That turns out to be really quite
> straightforward, though I had to hack pg_regress.c a bit to get its idea
> of $libdir to match up exactly with the way the backend sees it.
> (The only reason this matters is that there's one error report in the
> regression tests where the full expansion of $libdir is reported.
> Maybe we should just drop that one test case instead of maintaining
> the infrastructure for replacing @libdir@ in pg_regress.c.)
> 
> Attached is a draft patch for HEAD.  It passes "make check" and "make
> installcheck" on Unix, but I've not touched the MSVC scripts.
> Comments? 

I'll try to integrate this with my pg_upgrade test runner to see if it
gets the job done.