On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: >>It seems to me that you are looking more for a connection parameter >>here. > > I'm not seeing a meaningful distinction here? Env vars and connection > parameters are handled using the same framework in libpq. And using the env > var in the test would be better, because you'd only set one value - hard to > do within our non TAP tests (i.e. in an existing psql, started by pg regress) > otherwise.
Or both? I don't really understand why an environment variable is better than a connection string. For the TAP tests, you could just set the base of the connection string once and you are done as well. See the SSL tests for example. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
