Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X

On 2014-10-30 21:24:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 2014-10-30 21:03:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Meh. Right now, it's easy to dismiss these tests as unimportant,
> >> figuring that they play little part in whether the completed build
> >> is reliable. But that may not always be true. If they do become
> >> a significant part of our test arsenal, silently omitting them will
> >> not be cool for configure to do.
>
> > Well, I'm all for erroring out if somebody passed --enable-foo-tests and
> > the prerequisites aren't there. What I *am* against is requiring an
> > explicit flag to enable them because then they'll just not be run in
> > enough environments. And that's what's much more likely to cause
> > unnoticed bugs.
>
> Once they're at the point where they're actually likely to catch stuff
> of interest, I'll be all for enabling them by default.

Great. We already are at that point due to the pg_basebackup
tests.
If we slightly extend it to also start up the newly made base backups we
will have the first minimal automated test of recovery...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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