Hi,
On 2014-11-24 10:49:45 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I'm now contemplating the addition on a new one in the commit-timestamps
> patch, and I'm starting to feel that these are all misplaced. I think
> we have been dumping them to contrib not because they really belong
> there, but because of the lack of a better place.
Agreed.
> As opposed to the
> rest of the stuff in contrib/, they don't serve any useful purpose on
> themselves; they are just demonstrating some coding techniques, or
> testing that some framework work as intended.
I actually think that test_decoding is somewhat useful in other cases as
well, so it might be prudent to leave it there.
> What would you say if we were to move them to src/test/? I could also
> see putting them in a brand new top-level directory, say testing/ or
> testprg/.
src/test/ is good, but I think there should be another subdirectory
inside. testcases/?
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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