> On 8 Nov 2023, at 08:55, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>
> On 06.07.23 00:00, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>> On 16 May 2023, at 11:17, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>>> Parked in the July CF for now.
>> Rebased to fix a trivial conflict highlighted by the CFBot.
>
> I think the problem with this approach is that one would need to reapply it to each regression test suite separately.
For example, there are several tests under contrib/ that create roles. These would not be covered by this
automatically.
>
> I think the earlier idea of just counting roles, tablespaces, etc. before and after would be sufficient.
It's been a while but if memory serves me right, one of the reasons for this
approach was that pg_regress didn't use libpq so running queries and storing
results for comparisons other than diffing .out files was painful at best.
Since 66d6086cbc pg_regress does have a dependency on libpq so we can now
perform that bookkeeping a bit easier. I still find it more elegant to at
least compare the contents and not just the count, but I can take a stab at a
revised patch since this approach doesn't seem to appeal to the thread.
--
Daniel Gustafsson