Re: [HACKERS] how about a "bugs" regression test?

On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Keith Parks wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I wonder if it might be useful to maintain a "bugs" regression test, where
> we could include various tests that people have supplied to highlight bugs
> in the system and that have subsequently been fixed?
>
> I'm thinking along the lines of the current varchar() bug that can be
> easily demonstrated in a couple of lines of sql.
>
> Ideally the varchar() bug test could be included in the varchar tests
> but it may be easier to collect such misc things in a seperate file
> that could be regularly updated as we get examples.
>
> The people testing and fixing the problems could supply the additions
> to the bugs.sql and bugs.out files as we find/fix them?

    Sounds cool to me...someone want to submit a "start" to this?

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org