Re: convert libpq uri-regress tests to tap test

On 23.02.22 23:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> On 23.02.22 21:30, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> Where would we want that test to live? Right now we have the slightly odd
>>> convention that some tap tests live in src/test/{misc,modules,...}. But
>>> e.g. frontend binary ones are below src/bin/.
> 
>> libpq TAP tests should be in src/interfaces/libpq/t/.
> 
>> I think there were issues that the build farm wouldn't pick up a test
>> located there, but that should be fixed rather than worked around.
> 
> That's failing to account for the fact that a libpq test can't
> really be a pure-perl TAP test; you need some C code to drive the
> library.  I don't agree with intermixing such code with libpq
> itself, independently of any buildsystem issues (which there
> might well be).

Such things could be put under src/interfaces/libpq/test, or some other 
subdirectory.  We already have src/interfaces/ecpg/test.

> So I think the design of putting such tests under
> src/modules is fine.

I don't get what the rationale for that would be.  libpq tests are not 
"modules" of any kind.

If I'm working on libpq, I want to do make && make check inside the 
libpq source directory.