Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests

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Peter Eisentraut
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Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests
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Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Re: Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Re: Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>
Re: Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>
Re: Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Re: Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Re: Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
I'm proposing here a way to pass extra options to initdb when run 
internally during test setup in pg_regress or 
PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster's init (which covers just about all test 
suites other than initdb's own tests).

For example:

     make check PG_TEST_INITDB_EXTRA_OPTS='-k -c work_mem=50MB'

We currently document at [0] a way to pass custom server settings to the 
tests via PGOPTIONS.  But this only works for pg_regress and only for 
options that can be changed at run time.  My proposal can set initdb 
options, and since initdb has the -c option now, it can set any GUC 
parameter as well.

I think this can be useful for a wide variety of uses, like running all 
tests with checksums enabled, or with JIT enabled, or with different GUC 
settings, or with different locale settings.  (The existing pg_regress 
--no-locale option is essentially a special case of this, but it only 
provides one particular locale setting, not things like changing the 
default provider etc.)

Of course, not all tests are going to pass with arbitrary options, but 
it is useful to run this against specific test suites.

This patch also updates the documentation at [0] to explain the new 
method and distinguish it from the previously documented methods.


[0]: 
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/regress-run.html#REGRESS-RUN-CUSTOM-SETTINGS
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