On 2020-08-25 18:44, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> On 2020-07-24 15:23, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Sounds good. Do we want to try Noah's idea of temporarily committing
>>> the remaining changes, to see if the buildfarm is happy?
>
>> I think to get value out of this you'd have to compare the config.status
>> output files (mainly pg_config.h and Makefile.global) before and after.
>> Otherwise you're just testing that the shell can parse the script.
>> Perhaps some manual tests on, say, AIX and HP-UX using the native shell
>> would be of some value.
>
> I already did that on assorted boxes, using the patches you previously
> posted [1]. Do you think there's value in re-doing it manually,
> rather than just having at it with the buildfarm?
I think right now we don't need any further organized testing.
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