On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:01:19AM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 09:02:36AM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Is there no way you can integrate slony with the pg build farm?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I suspect volunteers are welcome!  That is, AFAIK nobody has even
> >approached the buildfarm people over this.  And it would require some
> >significant integration work; which is, I'd say, why it hasn't been
> >done yet.  There are several automated tests in the source tree, as
> >well; but I'm not sure they're complete regression tests.  So are you
> >volunteering to do (some of) the work?
> >  
> >
> I have been working on getting more tests into the "new generation test
> framework."

I am looking forward to the commitment of these changes.  I would like
to be able to design and throw in several scenarios with and
without expected errors.  

--elein

> 
> Pointedly, I have added in (not yet committed, tho) multibyte and
> namespace mangling tests.
> 
> It's not all working yet, which is why I haven't committed it to CVS,
> but it's on its way.
> 
> What is unfortunate, at this point, is that there are cases which we can
> expect to break in particular ways; it would be good to verify that
> Slony-I refuses them properly. 
> 
> For instance, if you have a Really Long cluster namespace name,
> auto-created PK fields start breaking; I have added a check for 1.2
> which refuses to allow the Really Long cluster name.  Unfortunately,
> things we expect to break aren't nearly as easy to test :-(.
> 
> At present, we have about a dozen "duct tape" tests which cover a fair
> bunch of scenarios; that probably doesn't require 12 separate test
> cases, in an "automated run-them-through" system, though...
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