Re: AW: Re: GiST for 7.1 !!

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Oleg Bartunov wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> >
> > just downloaded it and can't find any regression tests ... ?
>
> it's in the contrib-intarray.tar.gz
> gmake, gmake install, gmake installcheck

erk, can we get this somehow done in such a way that its part of the
*standard* regression tests?  so when ppl do 'make test', the GiST stuff
is checked also?  My worry, as with others, isn't that GiST itself is
broken by the changes, its that *somehow* there is an interaction that is
with the rest of the system that isn't being tested ...


>
>
>     Oleg
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
> > > > > > I understand Tom's arguments and respect his experience, so I think it's
> > > > > > possible to put link to my page in 7.1 docs for people interested in
> > > > > > GiST features.
> > > > >
> > > > > Bear in mind that I only have one core vote ;-).  We've already had some
> > > > > private core discussion about whether to accept this patch now, and so
> > > > > far I think I'm outvoted.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > There are several Tom Lane, judge by your activity. You probably need
> > > > several votes.
> > > >
> > > > > Did I understand you to say that you'd added some regression tests for
> > > > > GiST?  That would lessen my unhappiness a little bit ...
> > > >
> > > > Yes, we did. Currently all files are available from my page
> > > > http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/
> > > > I could submit them to hackers list if CORE people got consensus
> > >
> > > Okay, if there are appropriate regression tests, I'm going to say go for
> > > it ...
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any objections to my downloading the tar file (doing that
> > > now), committing the changes and wrapping up a quick Beta4 just so that we
> > > have a tar ball that is testable right away?
> > >
> > > Save Lamar and the other packagers a bit of work by avoiding beta3
> > > packages :)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
> > Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> > primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
> >
>
>     Regards,
>         Oleg
> _____________________________________________________________
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> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
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>

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org