Re: pg_upgrade automatic testing

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-11-05T16:45:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On mån, 2011-09-19 at 07:06 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I found a simpler way to get this working.  Just hack up the catalogs
> for the new path directly.  So I can now run this test suite against
> older versions as well, like this:
> 
> contrib/pg_upgrade$ make installcheck oldsrc=somewhere oldbindir=elsewhere

Any comments on how to proceed with this?  I think it has been useful in
detecting pg_upgrade breakage a few times already, so I'd like to commit
it and start using it.