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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: Mark Dilger <markdilger(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: In-core regression tests for replication, cascading, archiving, PITR, etc. Michael Paquier
Date: 2014-01-07 15:27:14
Message-ID: 13275.1389108434@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> writes:
> Another idea would be to do something like chroot, but more lightweight,
> using FUSE, private mount namespaces, or cgroups.

I thought the goal here was to have a testing framework that (a) is
portable to every platform we support and (b) doesn't require root
privileges to run. None of those options sound like they'll help meet
those requirements.

regards, tom lane

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