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Using the PostgreSQL TAP framework in extensions

April 10, 2017/3 Comments/in Craig's PlanetPostgreSQL /by craig.ringer

Support for using the TAP protocol to run extended regression tests was added to PostgreSQL back in 9.4 with the adoption of Perl’s prove tool and Test::More to test initdb, pg_basebackup, etc. Since then the TAP-based tests have been greatly expanded, particularly with the advent of the src/test/recovery tests and the PostgresNode module in PostgreSQL […]

PGLogical 1.1 packages for PostgreSQL 9.6beta1

May 12, 2016/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Petr's PlanetPostgreSQL, pglogical, PostgreSQL /by Petr Jelinek

We have made pglogical 1.1 packages available for PostgreSQL 9.6beta1 for both rpm and deb based distributions. They are available for install from our standard pglogical package repository. You may ask why do we release packages for beta version of Postgres? Well, one of the reasons is that you can use pglogical to replicate your […]

Code coverage stats

April 18, 2016/0 Comments/in Alvaro's PlanetPostgreSQL, PostgreSQL /by alvherre

Many years ago, Michelle Caise submitted a patch to generate code coverage reports for the PostgreSQL code base, based on the lcov utility. Although I cannot find any record of an actual patch in the mailing list archives, Peter Eisentraut committed it some time later, and applied further refinements later. Today I’m announcing a new […]

Postgres and devops: testing 9.3 with Vagrant and Puppet – part two

November 4, 2013/2 Comments/in Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele Bartolini

In a previous blog post, I have gone through the steps of setting up a basic CentOS 6.4 64bit Linux distribution using Vagrant on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Linux. We will continue digging in the devops culture/movement and finally setup PostgreSQL 9.3 using Puppet in a local virtual machine.

Testing new PostgreSQL versions without messing up your existing install

August 30, 2013/8 Comments/in Craig's PlanetPostgreSQL /by craig.ringer

People are often hesitant to test out a new PostgreSQL release because they’re concerned it’ll break their current working installation. This is a perfectly valid concern, but it’s easily resolved with a few simple protective measures: Build PostgreSQL from source as an unprivileged user Install your PostgreSQL build within that user’s home directory Run PostgreSQL […]

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Using the PostgreSQL TAP framework in extensions

PGLogical 1.1 packages for PostgreSQL 9.6beta1

Code coverage stats

Postgres and devops: testing 9.3 with Vagrant and Puppet – part two

Testing new PostgreSQL versions without messing up your existing install

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