> On 15 Feb 2024, at 16:21, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> writes: >> On 15 Feb 2024, at 11:38, Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org> wrote: >>> We don't have a man page for pg_regress, so there is no place to >>> comprehensively document all the options and their interactions. > >> This comes up every now and again, just yesterday there was a question on >> -general [0] about alternate output files which also are >> undocumented. > > Really? > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/regress-variant.html
Doh, I missed that when looking. >> Maybe it's time to add documentation for pg_regress? > > I'm inclined to think that a formal man page wouldn't be that useful, > since nobody ever invokes pg_regress directly; Right, I was mostly thinking of a chapter along the lines of "I am an extension author, what features does this tool have to help me write good tests". > the complete lack of equivalent info about what > to do in a meson build clearly needs to be rectified. Indeed. -- Daniel Gustafsson
