Re: mb and ecpg regression tests

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> Back when we were thinking of supporting MSVC builds, we thought that 
>> everything would need to be a C program, and so we rewrote the main 
>> regression script in C, for example. However, now we have a build system 
>> for MSVC we can see that its main infrastructure is in fact perl, so I 
>> think what we need to do is to convert the MBCS and ECPG regression 
>> drivers to perl rather than C - which should be far, far  simpler task.
>>     
>
> I disagree with this for ecpg because (a) it would be a capability
> regression from the point of view of anyone building a non-perl-enabled
> build on Unix, and (b) we already have the C regression driver, why
> can't we re-use or adapt it for ecpg instead of writing and debugging
> and maintaining an entirely new set of test infrastructure?
>
> For the MBCS stuff I don't care, since no one runs that on a regular
> basis anyway (or should need to...)
>
>
>   

Well, you need perl to build from CVS, IIRC, but I take the point.

I don't think ECPG can use pg_regress as is, because it does more than 
just run psql. We probably need to look at factoring out the common bits 
into a shared lib. That's not a bad idea anyway.

cheers

andrew