On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 01:41:00PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes: > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 12:52:39PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> It's sort of annoying to fire up a psql+backend > >> for just one command, but perhaps there's other stuff that could be > >> put there too. > > > Yes. The src/test/regress suite would be in a better place if one could run > > most test files via a schedule containing only two files, the setup file and > > the file of interest. Adding things like the "CREATE TABLE tenk1" to the > > setup file would help that. > > If we're thinking of a generalized setup file, putting it after the > tablespace test feels pretty weird. What was your motivation for > doing this at the end of tablespace.source rather than the start?
I did it that way so a bit of the "make check" suite would exercise the standard user experience. That's a minor concern, so putting the setup file before the tablespace file is fine. Various contrib and TAP suites will still test the standard user experience. > It doesn't look like that test in itself had any interesting > dependencies on public not being writable. Right.