Re: Recovery Test Framework

Simon Riggs wrote:
> Recovery doesn't have a test framework as yet.

I have been having these concerns as well.  In fact, I recall 
discussions at least 8 years back about how pg_dump doesn't really have 
any organized testing, and we also have little regular testing of PITR 
aside from specific exercises that users or developers occasionally run.

The question remains how to do it.  Running read-only queries on a slave 
doesn't show anything about how well the write-relevant parts of WAL 
archiving work.  That's not to say it's not interesting to test that, 
but there is really a lot more to having a full test suite for our 
backup and recovery facilities.