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Re: Getting rid of regression test input/ and output/ files

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-12-20T14:05:15Z
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On 19.12.21 00:53, Tom Lane wrote:
> 2. Export the values from pg_regress as environment variables,
> and then add a way for the test scripts to read those variables.
> I was a bit surprised to realize that we didn't have any way
> to do that already --- psql has \setenv, so why did we never
> invent \getenv?

You can do

\set foo `echo $ENVVAR`

but that's probably not portable enough for your purpose.

Commits

  1. Merge dblink's paths test script into its main test.

  2. Remove dynamic translation of regression test scripts, step 2.

  3. Remove dynamic translation of regression test scripts, step 1.

  4. Add a \getenv command to psql.