Re: Testing of MVCC

Tom Lane wrote:

>>Expect is very cool, but it would impose an extra dependency on tcl that 
>>we don't now have for building and testing,
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>True.  I was pointing to it more as an example of the sorts of tools
>people have built for this type of problem.
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>I'm pretty sure there are re-implementations of Expect out there that
>don't use Tcl; would you be happier with, say, a perl-based tool?
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Yes, because we already have a dependency on perl. But don't be 
surprised if we can't find such a beast, especially one that runs under 
the weird MSys DTK perl - I won't even begin to tell you the nightmares 
that caused with getting buildfarm to work on Windows.

BTW, further reading indicates that AS Expect does exist for Windows, 
but it's a commercial offering, not a free one. Others appear to be 
somewhat limited in value, but I could be wrong.

cheers

andrew