regression driver into two parts and reusing half of it. Required to
run ECPG tests without a shell on MSVC builds.
Fix ECPG thread tests for MSVC build (incl output files).
Joachim Wieland and Magnus Hagander
For win32 in general, this makes it possible to run the regression tests
as an admin user by using the same restricted token method that's used
by pg_ctl and initdb.
For vc++, it adds building of pg_regress.exe, adds a resultmap, and
fixes how it runs the install.
Magnus Hagander
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:
may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."
can - ability, "I can lift that log."
might - possibility, "It might rain today."
Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice. Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
the generated files, to help Visual C++ to run these tests. The tests still
pass in VPATH and normal builds.
Patch from Magnus Hagander, editorialized by me.
'postmaster', so as not to depend on the existence of the postmaster
symlink. Also, implement postmaster-still-alive and postmaster-kill
operations for Windows, per Magnus.
because they are used for testing the return value from system().
(WIN32 doesn't overlay the return code with other failure conditions
like Unix does, so they are just simple macros.)
Fix regression checks to properly handle diff failures on Win32 using
the new macros.
configuration files that can be altered by a DBA. The australian_timezones
GUC setting disappears, replaced by a timezone_abbreviations setting (set this
to 'Australia' to get the effect of australian_timezones). The list of zone
names defined by default has undergone a bit of cleanup, too. Documentation
still needs some work --- in particular, should we fix Table B-4, or just get
rid of it? Joachim Wieland, with some editorializing by moi.
pg_regress: there's no other way to cope with testing a relocated
installation. Seems better to call it --psqldir though, since the
only thing we need to find in that case is psql. It'd be better if
we could use find_other_exec, but that's not happening unless we are
willing to install pg_regress alongside psql, which seems unlikely
to happen.
the check on diff's exit status to check for literally 0 or 1. Someone
should look into why WIFEXITED/WEXITSTATUS don't work for this, but I've
spent more than enough time on it already.
just exec instead of creating a subprocess. This reduces process usage
from four processes per parallel test to two. I have no idea whether
a comparable optimization is possible or useful in the Windows port.
This allows it to be used on Windows without installing mingw
(though you do still need 'diff'), and opens the door to future
improvements such as message localization.
Magnus Hagander and Tom Lane.
Alvaro Herrera