Re: In-core regression tests for replication, cascading, archiving, PITR, etc. Michael Paquier

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> I thought the goal here was to have a testing framework that (a) is
> portable to every platform we support and (b) doesn't require root
> privileges to run.  None of those options sound like they'll help meet
> those requirements.

FWIW, I hacked up a Perl-based testing system as a proof of concept 
some time ago. I can dust it off if anyone is interested. Perl has 
a very nice testing ecosystem and is probably the most portable 
language we support, other than C. My quick goals for the project were:

* allow granular testing (ala Andrew's recent email, which reminded me of this)
* allow stackable methods and dependencies
* make it very easy to write new tests
* test various features that are way too diificult in our existing system (e.g. PITR, fdws)
* get some automated code coverage metrics (this one was tricky)
* allow future git integration based on subsytems

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