Re: Backpatching of "Teach the regular expression functions to do case-insensitive matching"

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Well, since any problems in this are are going to bite us eventually
>> in 9.0+ even without any further action on our part, maybe it would be
>> wise to think up something we could add to the regression tests.  That
>> would give us some immediate feedback from the buildfarm, and also
>> significantly improve the odds of someone compiling on a weird
>> platform noticing if things are broken.
>
> No objection here, but how will we do that?  The regression tests are
> designed to work in any locale/encoding, and would become significantly
> less useful if they weren't.

I'm just shooting from the hip here, but maybe we could have a
separate (probably smaller) set of tests that are only designed to
work in a limited range of locales and/or encodings. I'm really
pleased that we now have the src/test/isolation stuff, and I think
some more auxilliary test suites would be quite excellent. Even if
people didn't always want to run every single one when doing things
manually, the buildfarm certainly could.

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