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Re: [HACKERS] how about a "bugs" regression test?

Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk> — 1998-02-15T21:50:06Z

Eeek,

I'd almost forgotten about this suggestion.

I'll start looking through my mailbox and see if there are any
interesting snippets of SQL that might form a basis for this.

Keith.

The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
> Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk>
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Keith Parks wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I wonder if it might be useful to maintain a "bugs" regression test, where
> > we could include various tests that people have supplied to highlight bugs
> > in the system and that have subsequently been fixed?
> > 
> > I'm thinking along the lines of the current varchar() bug that can be
> > easily demonstrated in a couple of lines of sql.
> > 
> > Ideally the varchar() bug test could be included in the varchar tests
> > but it may be easier to collect such misc things in a seperate file
> > that could be regularly updated as we get examples.
> > 
> > The people testing and fixing the problems could supply the additions
> > to the bugs.sql and bugs.out files as we find/fix them?
> 
> 	Sounds cool to me...someone want to submit a "start" to this?
> 
> Marc G. Fournier                                
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
> 
>