Re: pg_regress: referencing shared objects from tests

Jorgen Austvik - Sun Norway <Jorgen.Austvik@Sun.COM> writes:
> we would like to be able to use and ship pg_regress and the PostgreSQL 
> test suite independently of the PostgreSQL build environment, for 
> testing and maybe even as a separate package to be build and shipped 
> with the OS for others to test their setup. Does this sound like a sane 
> and OK thing to do?

The RPM packages have done this since approximately forever.  You might
want to look at the patches used there.
        regards, tom lane