Re: pg_regress: referencing shared objects from tests

Jorgen Austvik - Sun Norway <Jorgen.Austvik@Sun.COM> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The RPM packages have done this since approximately forever.  You might
>> want to look at the patches used there.

> yes [1] is the same that we have been using internally.

> Let me reformulate my question: would it be better to include something 
> like the attached patch in PostgreSQL, than have every distributor of 
> the tests apply it?

> [1] 
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/postgresql/F-9/postgresql-test.patch?rev=1.3&view=auto

I never particularly thought it would be useful to push that patch
upstream, but certainly it would make life a tad simpler for Devrim and
me.  Since nobody else has objected, I'll look into doing this in HEAD.
        regards, tom lane