Re: [HACKERS] psql & regress tests

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> * Since no one has picked up on my idea to run the tests directly on the
> >> backend, I will keep reiterating this idea until someone shuts me up
> 
> > Running the backend standalone does not use locking with other backends,
> > so it is dangerous.
> 
> It wouldn't be particularly "dangerous" if we assume that no one else is
> accessing the regression database.  What it *would* be is less useful at
> catching problems.  Standalone mode wouldn't test the cross-backend
> interlocking code at all.

Any modifications to shared pg_ tables would be a problem.  Also, pg_log
and pg_variable locking is not happening in there either, is it?

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