Re: Use pg_rewind when target timeline was switched

Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Alexander Korotkov wrote:

> > I was running manual tests like a noob :) When you attached you bash script,
> > I've switched to it.
> 
> [product_placement]The patch to improve the recovery test suite
> submitted in this CF would have eased the need of bash-ing test cases
> here, and we could have test cases directly included in your
> patch.[/product_placement]

The problem of bash test scripts is that they don't run on Windows,
which is why we settled on Perl-based TAP tests.  I think having tests
for various aspects of recovery is useful, because being relatively new
it's still being hacked in various ways and it's good to ensure that
things that were previously working continue to work.

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