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

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, 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 15:30:01
Message-ID: 20140107153001.GF14280@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-01-07 10:27:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

Seconded.

Perhaps the solution is to simply introduce tablespaces located relative
to PGDATA? That'd be fracking useful anyway.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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