Thanks a lot, Eric!
Yes, unfortunately, I'm trying to use them to do some specific testing.
One thing bugged me is that even testing on a clean mysqld with the default
configuration, some --extern test fails. I guess it is because these test
cases are not supported.
By the way, could you
Those tests are typically used by people developing the mysqld server.
The packages distributed have already had the tests ran on them. I'm
not sure how much value it will provide unless you're modifying
mysqld.
I don't have a great answer but my best guess is that extern can't be
used with tests
Hi, all,
I wanna test my running MySQL server. According to the README in the
mysql-test directory, If you want to use an already running MySQL server
for specific tests, use the --extern option to mysql-test-run.
For example, mysql-test-run --extern alias
But the README also pointed out that
