On Aug 12, 2010, at 1:27 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Clint, > > FYI, I managed to have the test to work without using networking at all > (just Unix socket), which is a way safer than what you did. > > Attached to this email is my ./debian/test_mysql.sh. >
Sweet! I'd like to see a comment in there explaining that MYSQL_UNIX_PORT is used by test_dbi indirectly via libmysqlclient, as its not exactly obvious how things are working. > I'm now working on doing the same thing with pgsql. I hope it wont be > too different, because I don't know much about Postgresql. > Don't know why I didn't think of exploiting the environment. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/libpq-envars.html Looks like you can set PGHOST=$PG_TMPDIR Just have to specify them to postgres on the command line, this should do it: postgres -k $PG_TMPDIR -D $PG_TMPDIR -h '' Attached script does just that (tho still depends on my run_test_driver.sh)
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