On 12/31/16 4:09 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> now the code in tabcomplete become large part of psql. Is there some
> possibility to write regress tests?
I started on that a while ago with some Perl Expect module. The use of
the module was a bit cumbersome, but it worked OK.
The problem is that you end up just writing out another copy of
tab-complete.c in a different language. So, for example, to test
else if (Matches4("ALTER", "DOMAIN", MatchAny, "SET")) COMPLETE_WITH_LIST3("DEFAULT", "NOT NULL", "SCHEMA");
the test code would effectively look like
test_completion(["ALTER", "DOMAIN", random_string(), "SET"], ["DEFAULT, "NOT NULL", "SCHEMA"]);
That's not very interesting, and the regressions are more likely in
keeping the test code up to date than in actual behavior changes.
I do agree that having some tests would be good, because we're now so
used to having tests that reviewing tab completion changes becomes
strangely manual. But I don't have a good idea how to structure those
tests efficiently.
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