Re: cleanup: Split long Makefile lists across lines and sort them

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

Cc: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>, zengman <zengman@halodbtech.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-12-29T03:32:02Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 04:12:16AM +0000, Japin Li wrote:
>> 2. I noticed that btree_gin, btree_gist, and pgcrypto also have relatively
>> long REGRESS lists, should we also update them?

> If we think about that in terms of frequency where new test files are
> added, it seems to me that there would be more meaning to do that for
> pgcrypto, test_decoding and pgss.  This is more true for the two last
> entries of this list.
> About the rest?  Not so much.  Still, I was surprised to see that we
> have added stuff to btree_gist recently for WITHOUT OVERLAPS, so
> perhaps there is a point there.

I think a reasonable policy for this going forward is to mop up
the stragglers when and if another test case is added to each one.

			regards, tom lane