On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 03:50:52PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think there's definitely value in corrupting data in some predictable
> (reproducible) way and verifying that the check code catches it and
> responds as expected. Sure, this will not be 100% coverage, but it'll be
> a lot better than 0% coverage.
Skimming quickly through the patch, that's what is done in a way
similar to pg_checksums's 002_actions.pl. So it seems fine to me to
use something like that for some basic coverage. We may want to
refactor the test APIs to unify all that though.
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Michael