libpq URI and regression testing

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-04-17T13:47:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

When I committed Alex Shulgin's patch to add URI support to libpq, I
included the test harness as well.  However, due to it being in a
separate subdirectory that did not previously had tests, it's not being
run by buildfarm.  

It's not considered in "make installcheck-world" either.

What's the preferred way to make it automatically tested as much as
possible?  I know the buildfarm does not run "installcheck-world", so if
we want it there, it'd need a bit more code on the client side.  I think
it would be wise to have it also run on installcheck-world.

Hmm.  Just had this thought: not all platform support the same socket
types.  Maybe we should have separated the .in file in three parts:
IPv4, IPv6, unix-domain socket.  That way each platform would only run
tests that pertain to it.  Right now there's a single "regress.in" file
that lists all the tests.

Opinions?

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>