Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > FWIW, I find the autoconf/make test run experience completely unusable. It > literally is made me embark on getting away from it. I don't understand how > people stand it.
Interesting perspective, because from where I sit the testing aspect is the weakest part of our meson setup: it seems to be very much all-or-nothing, whereas the makefiles allow you to run any particular test suite you want. Maybe this is just a lack of documentation? There is still not a word in https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/regress-run.html about how to accomplish any of those effects under meson. I find the lack of any equivalent to installcheck to be particularly distressing, since it means you can't repeat a test without paying for "make temp-install" every time. Admittedly that doesn't work for a test that needs particular non-default installation settings, but that's a minority of our tests. regards, tom lane
