Re: Fix expecteddir argument in pg_regress

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

To: Anthonin Bonnefoy <anthonin.bonnefoy@datadoghq.com>

Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-03-14T10:45:52Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> On 11 Mar 2024, at 09:23, Anthonin Bonnefoy <anthonin.bonnefoy@datadoghq.com> wrote:

> pg_regress accepts the expecteddir argument. However, it is never used
> and outputdir is used instead to get the expected files paths.

Nice catch, c855872074b5bf44ecea033674d22fac831cfc31 added --expecteddir
support to pg_regress but only implemented it for the ECPG tests.  Will have
another look at this before applying with a backpatch to v16 where
--expecteddir was added.

--
Daniel Gustafsson

Commits

Fix handling of expecteddir in pg_regress
- 564326299997 16.3 landed
- 196eeb6b2f7c 17.0 landed
regress: allow to specify directory containing expected files, for ecpg
- c855872074b5 16.0 cited