Re: Portability issues in TAP tests

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 07/21/2014 02:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I had the same feeling about the Perl on RHEL6 ;-).  The TAP tests
>> will need to be a great deal more portable than they've proven so far
>> before they'll really be useful for anything much.  I trust we're
>> committed to making that happen.

> I'd be rather inclined to remove them from the check-world and 
> installcheck-world targets until we have dealt with the issues people 
> have identified.

I think it would be reasonable to do that in the 9.4 branch, since
it's a bit hard to argue that the TAP tests are production grade
at the moment.  We could leave them there in HEAD.
        regards, tom lane