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Andrew Dunstan b34ca595ab Allow for installation-aware instances of PostgresNode
Currently instances of PostgresNode find their Postgres executables in
the PATH of the caller. This modification allows for instances that know
the installation path they are supposed to use, and the module adjusts
the environment of methods that call Postgres executables appropriately.

This facility is activated by passing the installation path to the
constructor:

  my $node = PostgresNode->get_new_node('mynode',
     installation_path => '/path/to/installation');

This makes a number of things substantially easier, including

. testing third party modules
. testing different versions of postgres together
. testing different builds of postgres together

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a94c74f9-6b71-1957-7973-a734ea3cbef1@dunslane.net

Reviewed-By:  Alvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2021-03-24 18:52:25 -04:00
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2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00

PostgreSQL tests
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This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the
tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in
individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin.

Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see
which tests get run automatically.

authentication/
  Tests for authentication (but see also below)

examples/
  Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via
  "make check"

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

kerberos/
  Tests for Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication and encryption

ldap/
  Tests for LDAP-based authentication

locale/
  Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc

mb/
  Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support

modules/
  Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable
  for installing in production databases

perl/
  Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests

recovery/
  Test suite for recovery and replication

regress/
  PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress

ssl/
  Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling

subscription/
  Tests for logical replication