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Tom Lane a443c1b2d6 Allow non-quoted identifiers as isolation test session/step names.
For no obvious reason, isolationtester has always insisted that
session and step names be written with double quotes.  This is
fairly tedious and does little for test readability, especially
since the names that people actually choose almost always look
like normal identifiers.  Hence, let's tweak the lexer to allow
SQL-like identifiers not only double-quoted strings.

(They're SQL-like, not exactly SQL, because I didn't add any
case-folding logic.  Also there's no provision for U&"..." names,
not that anyone's likely to care.)

There is one incompatibility introduced by this change: if you write
"foo""bar" with no space, that used to be taken as two identifiers,
but now it's just one identifier with an embedded quote mark.

I converted all the src/test/isolation/ specfiles to remove
unnecessary double quotes, but stopped there because my
eyes were glazing over already.

Like 741d7f104, back-patch to all supported branches, so that this
isn't a stumbling block for back-patching isolation test changes.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/759113.1623861959@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-06-23 18:41:39 -04:00
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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