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| author | Peter Eisentraut | 2016-11-14 17:00:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Eisentraut | 2016-11-14 15:00:41 +0000 |
| commit | 9ca7b0bf016364c74d38f66c7050be915bfea908 (patch) | |
| tree | 12354599e1c255e1d8fee369a1c4f301792c7b70 /src/test/perl | |
| parent | 8ce4f597abc530b3b59bcf3a3964f31e50054bcd (diff) | |
Allow individual TAP tests to be run via PROVE_TESTS
Add a new optional Makefile variable PROVE_TESTS that, if passed as a
space-separated list of paths relative to the Makefile invoking
$(prove_check) or $(prove_installcheck), runs just those tests instead
of t/*.pl .
From: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/test/perl')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/test/perl/README | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/test/perl/README b/src/test/perl/README index 710a0d8bc3..cfb45a1547 100644 --- a/src/test/perl/README +++ b/src/test/perl/README @@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ across the source tree, particularly tests in src/bin and src/test. It's used to drive tests for backup and restore, replication, etc - anything that can't really be expressed using pg_regress or the isolation test framework. +The tests are invoked via perl's 'prove' command, wrapped in PostgreSQL +makefiles to handle instance setup etc. See the $(prove_check) and +$(prove_installcheck) targets in Makefile.global. By default every test in the +t/ subdirectory is run. Individual test(s) can be run instead by passing +something like PROVE_TESTS="t/001_testname.pl t/002_othertestname.pl" to make. + You should prefer to write tests using pg_regress in src/test/regress, or isolation tester specs in src/test/isolation, if possible. If not, check to see if your new tests make sense under an existing tree in src/test, like |