On 09/02/2011 10:36 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On tor, 2011-09-01 at 18:55 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
Peter Eisentraut<pete...@gmx.net>  writes:
+# contrib/pg_upgrade/test.sh
+#
+# Test driver for pg_upgrade.  Initializes a new database cluster,
+# runs the regression tests (to put in some data), runs pg_dumpall,
+# runs pg_upgrade, runs pg_dumpall again, compares the dumps.
Hm .. my experience is that that doesn't work at all, because the
regression tests set up assorted C functions whose implementations are
in pg_regress.so, and it creates them with absolute path references
to pg_regress.so.  When you try to load that into another installation
that's a different version of PG, it quite properly fails.  So I think
that as given, this script is only useful for testing pg_upgrade of
$currentversion to $currentversion.  Which is surely better than no test
Reminder --- you can't use pg_upgrade to go from the same catalog
version to the same catalog version because the catalog version is
embedded in the tablespace directory name.
Well, it does work, but only because the regression tests don't keep a
tablespace around at the end.  Would pg_upgrade complain otherwise?


In any case, it would be good to get rid of the limitation if possible. Then we could look at creating an automated test that we could use in the buildfarm.

cheers

andrew

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