On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 05:43:04AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 04:36:47PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > I chose TESTOUTDIR because it corresponds to the tmp_check directory, so
> > that the output files of the pg_upgrade run are removed when the test
> > artifacts are cleaned up. When using TESTDIR, the pg_upgrade output files
> > end up in the build directory, which is less bad than the source directory,
> > but still not ideal.
>
> Where does the choice of TESTOUTDIR come from? I am a bit surprised
> by this choice, to be honest, because there is no trace of it in the
> buildfarm client or the core code. TESTDIR, on the other hand, points
> to tmp_check/ if not set. It gets set it in vcregress.pl and
> Makefile.global.in.
It looks like Peter working on top of the meson branch.
TESTOUTDIR is not yet in master.
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/38/3395/
https://github.com/anarazel/postgres/tree/meson
https://github.com/anarazel/postgres/commit/e754bde6d0d3cb6329a5bf568e19eb271c3bdc7c
commit e754bde6d0d3cb6329a5bf568e19eb271c3bdc7c
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: Mon Feb 14 21:47:07 2022 -0800
wip: split TESTDIR into two.