Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X

On 10/30/2014 09:37 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> 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...
>

There are other issues. I am not going to enable this in the buildfarm
until the check test can work from a single install. It's insane for the
bin tests to take an order of magnitude longer than the main regression
suite.

cheers

andrew