Re: 9.6 TAP tests and extensions

On 25 November 2016 at 02:47, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Craig Ringer wrote:
>> On 27 October 2016 at 00:42, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> >> On 2016-09-23 16:04:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> >>> Looking back over the thread, I see that you also proposed installing
>> >>> isolationtester and pg_isolation_regress for the benefit of extensions.
>> >>> I'm very much less excited about that idea.  It'd be substantially more
>> >>> dead weight in typical installations, and I'm not sure that it'd be useful
>> >>> to common extensions, and I'm not eager to treat isolationtester's API
>> >>> and behavior as something we need to hold stable for extension use.
>> >>
>> >> FWIW, I'd be quite happy if it were installed. Running isolationtester
>> >> when compiling extensions against distribution postgres packages would
>> >> be quite useful.
>> >
>> > +1.
>>
>> Patch attached.
>
> Hmm but this only installs isolationtester itself ... don't you need
> pg_isolation_regress too?

Yeah, as Andres pointed out offlist after I posted this. Meant to
follow up but got side-tracked.

It needs PGXS support to be properly useful.

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