Re: Add FOREIGN to ALTER TABLE in pg_dump

On 2020-Jan-14, vignesh C wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 7:52 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >
> > vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> writes:
> > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 7:17 PM Luis Carril <luis.carril@swarm64.com> wrote:
> > >>> Your patch is failing the pg_dump TAP tests.  Please use
> > >>> configure --enable-tap-tests, fix the problems, then resubmit.
> >
> > >> Fixed, I've attached a new version.
> >
> > > Will it be possible to add a test case for this, can we validate by
> > > adding one test?
> >
> > Isn't the change in the TAP test output sufficient?
> 
> I could not see any expected file output changes in the patch. Should
> we modify the existing test to validate this.

Yeah, I think there should be at least one regexp in t/002_pg_dump.pl to
verify ALTER FOREIGN TABLE is being produced.

I wonder if Tom is thinking about Luis' other pg_dump patch for foreign
tables, which includes some changes to src/test/modules/test_pg_dump.

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