Re: libpq URI and regression testing

On tis, 2012-04-17 at 10:47 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.

It was agreed during the patch discussion that it shouldn't be run
automatically.

> 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.

That's one reason for that, but there are probably others in the way of
making this fully portable and automatable.