Re: Heap page diagnostic/test functions (v2)

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 11:53 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > This looks useful, but shouldn't it be part of /contrib/pgstattuple
> > rather than in the backend?
>
> Well, this was written with a view to it being usable for writing test
> cases that checked the various tuple states as we went. It was
> originally proposed when Tom asked "How will we test HOT?" (concurrent
> psql is the other half of the required base functionality to write
> sensible test cases).
>
> If we see it as a manual test tool only, contrib is OK. But it has to be
> in the backend to be usable in the regression test suite, so thats where
> it was designed to go.

Well, contrib can have its own regression tests.  We can put the HOT
tests in there too.

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