Gregory Stark wrote:
"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:Someday we might like to allow this, but it seems to mean inventing a new GUC context type, which I don't think I want to get into right now.Another option would be adding an option to initdb to override default config settings in the postgreql.conf. Then the pg_regress could just specify optionslike this for the regression database if necessary.
I thought about that. But it makes things harder for the installcheck case. I think the regression set needs to be able to run against a pretty vanilla install (e.g. the only thing buildfarm specifies for initdb is --no-locale ).
cheers andrew