Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > We've had ecpg regression tests being doing by the buildfarm for a > while, but they are not enabled for MSVC. Also, buildfarm has never > supported doing MBCS regression tests. In both cases the regression > tests are driven by Unix shell scripts, and in the MBCS case at least, > the script would need plenty of love before it would be suitable for the > buildfarm even on Unix. > > Back when we were thinking of supporting MSVC builds, we thought that > everything would need to be a C program, and so we rewrote the main > regression script in C, for example. However, now we have a build system > for MSVC we can see that its main infrastructure is in fact perl, so I > think what we need to do is to convert the MBCS and ECPG regression > drivers to perl rather than C - which should be far, far simpler task. > > I'm going to try to get these done and supported by the buildfarm by the > time we get to Beta.
I don't think it's essential, but one of the other reasons Magnus and I discussed for rewriting the regression tests in C was that we could include it in the future with the installer as a platform/installation confidence test. Regards, Dave. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match