Re: Rewriting the test of pg_upgrade as a TAP test - take three - remastered set

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-12-15T01:47:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 10:14:49PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> Tom's point was that the buildfarm scripts do
> 	if ($self->{bfconf}->{using_msvc})
> 		@checklog = run_log("perl vcregress.pl upgradecheck");
> 	else
> 			  "cd $self->{pgsql}/src/bin/pg_upgrade && $make $instflags check";
> 
> if we don't want to break every buildfarm member that has TestUpgrade enabled
> the moment this is committed, we need to have a backward compat path.

Missed that, thanks!  I'll think about all that a bit more before
sending a long-overdue rebased version.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Improve and fix some issues in the TAP tests of pg_upgrade

  2. Fix several issues with the TAP tests of pg_upgrade

  3. Make upgradecheck a no-op in MSVC's vcregress.pl

  4. Switch the regression tests of pg_upgrade to use TAP tests

  5. Fix check for PGHOST[ADDR] in pg_upgrade with Windows and temporary paths

  6. Remove REGRESS_OUTPUTDIR environment variable.

  7. Add PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster::config_data()