Makefile.global assigns this prerequisite to every target named "check",
but similar targets must mention it explicitly. Affected targets
failed, tested $PATH binaries, or tested a stale temporary installation.
The src/test/modules examples worked properly when called as "make -C
src/test/modules/$FOO check", but "make -j" allowed the test to start
before the temporary installation was in place. Back-patch to 9.5,
where commit dcae5facca introduced the
shared temp-install.
commit_ts and test_pg_dump were declaring targets before including the
PGXS stanza, which meant that the "all" target customarily defined as
the first (and therefore default target) was not the default anymore.
Fix that by moving those target definitions to after PGXS.
commit_ts was initially good, but I broke it in commit 9def031bd2;
test_pg_dump was born broken, probably copying from commit_ts' mistake.
In passing, fix a comment mistake in test_pg_dump/Makefile.
Backpatch to 9.6.
Noted by Tom Lane.
The test_pg_dump extension doesn't have a C component, so we need
to exclude it from the MSVC build system trying to figure out how
to build it.
Also add a "MODULES" line to the Makefile, as test_extensions has.
Might not be necessary, but seems good to keep things consistent.
Lastly, remove the 'installcheck' line from test_pg_dump, as that
was causing redefinition errors, at least on my box. This also
makes test_pg_dump consistent with how commit_ts is set up.
The Makefile for test_pg_dump shouldn't have a MODULES_big line
because there's no actual compiled bit for that extension. Hopefully
this will fix the Windows buildfarm members which were complaining.
In passing, also add the 'prove_installcheck' bit to the pg_dump and
test_pg_dump Makefiles, to get the buildfarm members to actually run
those tests.
This TAP test suite will create a new cluster, populate it based on
the 'create_sql' values in the '%tests' hash, run all of the runs
defined in the '%pgdump_runs' hash, and then for each test in the
'%tests' hash, compare each run's output the the regular expression
defined for the test under the 'like' and 'unlike' functions, as
appropriate.
While this test suite covers a fair bit of ground (67% of pg_dump.c
and quite a bit of the other files in src/bin/pg_dump), there is
still quite a bit which remains to be added to provide better code
coverage. Still, this is quite a bit better than we had, and has
found a few bugs already (note that the CREATE TRANSFORM test is
commented out, as it is currently failing).
Idea for using the TAP system from Tom, though all of the code is mine.
Noah Misch
Alvaro Herrera
Stephen Frost