Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Allow pg_regress to be run outside the build tree.

On 02/10 17.29, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >>I think the right fix would be to convert those .sql files to 
> >>input/*.source files and have pg_regress substitute the absolute 
> >>directory names in them, like it is done for the backend.
> >
> >Ugh.  I don't think it's acceptable to make contrib modules have to do
> >that.  Even if we fix all the ones in core, what of other people relying
> >on the pgxs infrastructure?
> 
> Yeah, true.  Maybe copy the data directory over, but let pg_regress do it?

For the record: when I integrated the pg_regress test suite (8.3.3)
into OpenSolaris recently, I worked around various problems by making
a wrapper script pg_regress.sh which copies everything into a
temporary directory structure and then runs pg_regress from there.

This involved creating three levels of dummy directories due to some
hardcoded "../../../" in paths.  A bit ugly, but then this package
isn't to be included in the standard distribution to end users, but
will be used by Solaris QA.

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