Re: Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests

> On 15 Feb 2024, at 16:21, Tom Lane  wrote:
> 
> Daniel Gustafsson  writes:
>> On 15 Feb 2024, at 11:38, Peter Eisentraut  wrote:
>>> We don't have a man page for pg_regress, so there is no place to comprehensively document all the options and their interactions.
> 
>> This comes up every now and again, just yesterday there was a question on
>> -general [0] about alternate output files which also are
>> undocumented.
> 
> Really?
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/regress-variant.html

Doh, I missed that when looking.

>> Maybe it's time to add documentation for pg_regress?
> 
> I'm inclined to think that a formal man page wouldn't be that useful,
> since nobody ever invokes pg_regress directly;

Right, I was mostly thinking of a chapter along the lines of "I am an extension
author, what features does this tool have to help me write good tests".

> the complete lack of equivalent info about what
> to do in a meson build clearly needs to be rectified.

Indeed.

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Daniel Gustafsson