Re: Question about make coverage-html

> > Creating a coverage report is a two-step process. First, you run the
> > test you're interested in, with "make check" or similar. Then you create
> > a report for the source files you're interested in, with "make
> > coverage-html". You can run these commands in different subdirectories.
>
> > In this case, you want to do "cd src/test/subscription; make check", to
> > run those TAP tests, and then run "make coverage-html" from the top
> > folder. Or if you wanted to create coverage report that covers only
> > replication-related source code, for example, you could run it in the
> > src/backend/replication directory ("cd src/backend/replication; make
> > coverage-html").
>
> I agree with the OP that the documentation is a bit vague here.
> I think (maybe I'm wrong) that it's clear enough that you can run
> whichever test case(s) you want, but this behavior of generating a
> partial coverage report is less clear.  Maybe instead of
>
>         The "make" commands also work in subdirectories.
>
> we could say
>
>         You can run the "make coverage-html" command in a subdirectory
>         if you want a coverage report for only a portion of the code tree.

Thank you for the clarifications and the updated documentation.

Kind Regards,
Peter Smith
Fujitsu Australia