Dear Tom,
While testing the recent pgxs patch, I noticed that you can build and
install contrib with PGXS:
...
It seems that it ought to work to run installcheck too:
gmake USE_PGXS=1 installcheck
but this does not quite work because the pg_regress script isn't
included in the installation tree. (If you copy it to where it'd
need to be, installcheck works.)
Is it worth including pg_regress in the installation to make this
work? Seems like it might be handy for external modules to be able
to run self-tests.
Indeed, I noticed this when I did pgxs;-) It is on my todo list for
postgresql, but I haven't had time much time this year to contribute
anything.
The reason it was not included at first is that it seemed to me that
selftests require a temporary installation which make sense easilly when
building from sources, but I was not sure about what would be really
needed for the feature out of the compilation tree (special conf files,
diff/comparison commands...). I was planning to investigate the details,
but if the pg_regress command is enough, that was a little bit stupid of
me not to do it directly. ISTM that the pg_regress command is not compiled
by default, only under "make test", so it should be added to the default
compilation?
--
Fabien.
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