Hi,

On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 at 06:33, Ashutosh Bapat
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2025-11-27 Th 5:19 AM, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 at 01:16, Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Committed
> > > Here is a small follow-up commit for documenting this feature.
> > >
> >
> >
> > This really belongs in the "meson" section. We need to add a new para
> > there similar to the "make" section para you are trying to amend here.
> >
> >
>
> +1. I think we should follow a structure similar to the chapter
> "installation from source code" which has a separate section for meson
> at the same level as 'make and autoconf'.

Done in v2.

> And a note at https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson.

I sent a wiki editor request to edit this page.

-- 
Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft
From 0453241b0d2cd7fcffc66f8a2730797835659be8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 11:02:13 +0300
Subject: [PATCH v2] Document Meson equivalents for running subset of
 regression tests

---
 doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index fe8d73e1f8c..dcebb2434f2 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -2142,6 +2142,14 @@ ninja
     postgres instance, specify <userinput>--setup running</userinput> as an
     argument to <userinput>meson test</userinput>.
    </para>
+
+   <para>
+    A subset of the regression tests can be run with the command
+    <userinput>TESTS="boolean char" meson test --suite regress</userinput> or
+    <userinput>TESTS="boolean char" meson test --suite regress-running</userinput>.
+    Note that sometimes tests have dependencies on objects created by other
+    tests, which can cause unexpected failures.
+   </para>
   </step>
 
   <step id="meson-install">
-- 
2.51.0

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