Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: > * alvherre (alvhe...@commandprompt.com) wrote: >> (And if we want something like this, I think we should not have a single >> huge file for the complete test, but a set of smaller files. I'd even >> put the bunch in src/bin/psql/regress rather than the main regress dir.)
> The actual set of tests is rather small. The output is large, but > that's just because we have alot of things in the catalog. It sounds to me like this is going to be like the rules regression test writ large; specifically the part that dumps out view definitions for all the built-in views. And that, quite frankly, has been a huge maintenance burden and AFAIR has never once had any redeeming social value in terms of catching a bug. If you're testing things that way, don't. There might be some value in psql backslash command tests that are designed to depend on just one or a few tables (or other appropriate objects). Dumping large fractions of the catalogs will just be a net loss. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers