On 03.01.22 22:50, Tom Lane wrote:
> The attached proposed patch removes some ancient infrastructure for
> manually testing hot standby. I doubt anyone has used this in years,
> because AFAICS there is nothing here that's not done better by the
> src/test/recovery TAP tests. (Or if there is, we ought to migrate
> it into the TAP tests.)
I looked into this some time ago and concluded that this test contains a
significant amount of testing that isn't obviously done anywhere else.
I don't have the notes anymore, and surely some things have progressed
since, but I wouldn't just throw the old test suite away without
actually checking.