On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 04:55:47PM -0700, Jacob Champion wrote:
> I was running the test_pg_dump extension suite, and I got annoyed that
> I couldn't keep it from deleting its dump artifacts after a successful
> run. Here's a patch to make use of PG_TEST_NOCLEAN (which currently
> covers the test cluster's base directory) with the Test::Utils
> tempdirs too.
I am still +1 in doing that.
> (Looks like this idea was also discussed last year [1]; let me know if
> I missed any more recent suggestions.)
I don't recall any specific suggestions related to that, but perhaps
it got mentioned somewhere else.
src/test/perl/README and regress.sgml both describe what
PG_TEST_NOCLEAN does, and it seems to me that these should be updated
to tell that temporary files are not removed on top of the data
folders?
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Michael