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Re: Test to dump and restore objects left behind by regression

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-03-31T21:17:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> On 28 Mar 2025, at 19:12, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2025-Mar-28, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
>> I think instead of going this direction, we really need to create a
>> separately-purposed script that simply creates "one of everything"
>> without doing anything else (except maybe loading a little data).
>> I believe it'd be a lot easier to remember to add to that when
>> inventing new SQL than to remember to leave something behind from the
>> core regression tests.  This would also be far faster to run than any
>> approach that involves picking a random subset of the core test
>> scripts.
> 
> FWIW this sounds closely related to what I tried to do with
> src/test/modules/test_ddl_deparse; it's currently incomplete, but maybe
> we can use that as a starting point.

Given where we are in the cycle, it seems to make sense to stick to using the
schedule we already have rather than invent a new process for generating it,
and work on that for 19?

--
Daniel Gustafsson

Commits

  1. Hide expensive pg_upgrade test behind PG_TEST_EXTRA

  2. Set log_statement=none in t/002_pg_upgrade.pl

  3. 002_pg_upgrade.pl: Move pg_dump test code for better stability

  4. 002_pg_upgrade.pl: rename some variables for clarity

  5. Verify roundtrip dump/restore of regression database

  6. Refactor TAP test code for file comparisons into new routine in Utils.pm

  7. Virtual generated columns

  8. Put generated_stored test objects in a schema

  9. Introduce "builtin" collation provider.

  10. Revert "Improve compression and storage support with inheritance"