On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:59:14PM +0000, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > Any thought of setting up an equivalent to the buildfarm for Slony?
> >   
> 
> It has come up, mostly on IRC...
> 
> I suppose there's a certain amount of merit to getting Slony-I to
> compile on a bunch of platforms.
> 
> The trouble is that you really need to run some tests, too, and it's
> remarkably challenging to write good automatable tests.

Well, start simple... have it fire up two postmasters, install the
regression database on each, make one replicate to the other, and run
the PostgreSQL regression tests. Granted, there's a hell of a lot of
functionality not tested by that, but there's also a hell of a lot that
is.
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