Re: Support "make check" for PGXS extensions

On 2025-03-20 Th 9:06 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> This is a quick follow-up to the extension_control_path patch.  With 
> this little additional patch, you can now run "make check" in 
> PGXS-using extensions (instead of having to do make install; make 
> installcheck with a running instance).  I think this would be very 
> convenient for extension development.
>
> The patch is still rough, probably needs a bit of work to do proper 
> escaping, quoting, further testing, and it will probably break if you 
> use a different source tree layout.  Maybe with a bit of help we can 
> get this robust enough.  Or otherwise, it can at least serve as 
> inspiration for what you can implement yourself in your extension's 
> makefile.


No support for TAP tests, AFAICT. I guess this is a first step, but TAP 
support would be nice.


cheers


andrew



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