On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 21:04, Simon Riggs
<simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> One immediate consequence of deciding that we are lead maintainers and
> not just consumers is that we should put in some regression tests,
> instead of taking the attitude that the Tcl guys are in charge of that.
> I have a head cold today and am not firing on enough cylinders to do
> anything actually complicated, so I was thinking of spending the
> afternoon transliterating the Tcl regex test cases into SQL as a
> starting point.
Having just had that brand of virus, I'd skip it and take the time
off, like I should have.
Translating the test cases is a great way in for a volunteer, so
please leave a few easy things to get people started on the road to
maintaining that.
I would be willing to have a go at translating test cases. I do not (yet) have the C knowledge to maintain the regex code, though.