Re: Testing DDL deparsing support

On Mon, Dec  8, 2014 at 12:43:36PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > This causes creation DDL is checked if it is used in the regression
> > database, but what about ALTER and DROP?  pg_dump doesn't issue those,
> > except in special cases like inheritance.
> 
> The proposed testing mechanism should cover any ALTER commands that
> are in the regression tests provided that those objects are not
> subsequently dropped -- because if the ALTER commands aren't replayed
> properly, then the later pg_dump won't produce the same output.
> 
> There probably are some gaps in our current regression tests in this
> area, but that's probably a good thing to fix regardless of this.

OK, I understand now that the ALTERs are being passed to the slave and
we then can test that against pg_dump --- sounds good.

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