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

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> I didn't push the changed for config_default you requested a few
>> messages upthread; it's not clear to me how setting it to undef affects
>> the whole thing.  If setting it to undef makes the MSVC toolchain run
>> the tap tests in the default config, then I can do it; let's be clear
>> about what branch to backpatch this to.  Also the "1;" at the end of
>> RewindTest.
>
>
> Setting it to undef will prevent the tests to run, per vcregress.pl:
>     die "Tap tests not enabled in configuration"
>       unless $config->{tap_tests};
> Also, setting it to undef will match the existing behavior on
> platforms where ./configure is used because the switch
> --enable-tap-tests needs to be used there. And I would believe that in
> most cases Windows environments are not going to have IPC::Run
> deployed.
>
> I have also rebased the recovery test suite as the attached, using the
> infrastructure that has been committed lately.

By the way, if there are no objections, I am going to mark this patch
as committed in the CF app. Putting in the infrastructure is already a
good step forward, and I will add an entry in next CF to track the
patch to add tests for recovery itself. Alvaro, what do you think?
-- 
Michael