Re: Regression tests vs existing users in an installation

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I'm coming to the conclusion that the only thing that will make this
> materially better in the long run is automatic enforcement of a convention
> about what role names may be created in the regression tests.  See my
> response to Stephen just now for a concrete proposal.

We could also do this by loading a C module during the regression
tests, which seems maybe less ugly than adding a GUC.

I don't particularly like your suggestion of spooky action at a
distance between force_parallel_mode and regression_test_mode.  That
just seems kooky.

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