FWIW, +1 on improving matters here. Andres Freund wrote:
> The best I can come up so far is a toplevel target that creates the temp > install, starts a cluster and then runs the 'installcheck-or-check' > target on all the subdirectories via recursion. Individual makefiles can > either use the pre-existing cluster (most of of contrib for example), or > use the temporary install and run their pre-existing check target using > that (the tap tests, test_decoding, ...). I think a toplevel installcheck-or-check target is a good first step (though definitely lets find a better name). Just being able to run all tests without the need for 95% of pointless initdb's would be helpful enough. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers