Re: [GENERAL] Testing of MVCC

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 16:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Matt Miller <mattm@epx.com> writes:
> > I want to write some regression tests that confirm the behavior of
> > multiple connections simultaneously going at the same tables/rows.  Is
> > there something like this already, e.g. in src/test/regress?
> 
> No. ... but surely we need one.

It seems to me that contrib/dblink could greatly simplify the design and
coding of multi-user regression tests.  Is there objection to a portion
of src/test/regress depending on contrib/dblink?  I'm not sure yet how
that dependency would look, but I'm mainly wondering if there are
objections in principle to depending on contrib/.