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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Tom Lane	18555b1323	Establish conventions about global object names used in regression tests. To ensure that "make installcheck" can be used safely against an existing installation, we need to be careful about what global object names (database, role, and tablespace names) we use; otherwise we might accidentally clobber important objects. There's been a weak consensus that test databases should have names including "regression", and that test role names should start with "regress_", but we didn't have any particular rule about tablespace names; and neither of the other rules was followed with any consistency either. This commit moves us a long way towards having a hard-and-fast rule that regression test databases must have names including "regression", and that test role and tablespace names must start with "regress_". It's not completely there because I did not touch some test cases in rolenames.sql that test creation of special role names like "session_user". That will require some rethinking of exactly what we want to test, whereas the intent of this patch is just to hit all the cases in which the needed renamings are cosmetic. There is no enforcement mechanism in this patch either, but if we don't add one we can expect that the tests will soon be violating the convention again. Again, that's not such a cosmetic change and it will require discussion. (But I did use a quick-hack enforcement patch to find these cases.) Discussion: <16638.1468620817@sss.pgh.pa.us>	10 years ago
Andres Freund	d6fa44fce7	Add skip-empty-xacts option to test_decoding for use in the regression tests. The regression tests for contrib/test_decoding regularly failed on postgres instances that were very slow. Either because the hardware itself was slow or because very expensive debugging options like CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS were used. The reason they failed was just that some additional transactions were decoded. Analyze and vacuum, triggered by autovac. To fix just add a option to test_decoding to only display transactions in which a change was actually displayed. That's not pretty because it removes information from the tests; but better than constantly failing tests in very likely harmless ways. Backpatch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced. Discussion: 20140629142511.GA26930@awork2.anarazel.de	11 years ago
Robert Haas	b89e151054	Introduce logical decoding. This feature, building on previous commits, allows the write-ahead log stream to be decoded into a series of logical changes; that is, inserts, updates, and deletes and the transactions which contain them. It is capable of handling decoding even across changes to the schema of the effected tables. The output format is controlled by a so-called "output plugin"; an example is included. To make use of this in a real replication system, the output plugin will need to be modified to produce output in the format appropriate to that system, and to perform filtering. Currently, information can be extracted from the logical decoding system only via SQL; future commits will add the ability to stream changes via walsender. Andres Freund, with review and other contributions from many other people, including Álvaro Herrera, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Peter Gheogegan, Kevin Grittner, Robert Haas, Heikki Linnakangas, Fujii Masao, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Michael Paquier, Simon Riggs, Craig Ringer, and Steve Singer.	12 years ago

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Tom Lane

18555b1323

Establish conventions about global object names used in regression tests.

To ensure that "make installcheck" can be used safely against an existing
installation, we need to be careful about what global object names
(database, role, and tablespace names) we use; otherwise we might
accidentally clobber important objects.  There's been a weak consensus that
test databases should have names including "regression", and that test role
names should start with "regress_", but we didn't have any particular rule
about tablespace names; and neither of the other rules was followed with
any consistency either.

This commit moves us a long way towards having a hard-and-fast rule that
regression test databases must have names including "regression", and that
test role and tablespace names must start with "regress_".  It's not
completely there because I did not touch some test cases in rolenames.sql
that test creation of special role names like "session_user".  That will
require some rethinking of exactly what we want to test, whereas the intent
of this patch is just to hit all the cases in which the needed renamings
are cosmetic.

There is no enforcement mechanism in this patch either, but if we don't
add one we can expect that the tests will soon be violating the convention
again.  Again, that's not such a cosmetic change and it will require
discussion.  (But I did use a quick-hack enforcement patch to find these
cases.)

Discussion: <16638.1468620817@sss.pgh.pa.us>

10 years ago

Andres Freund

d6fa44fce7

Add skip-empty-xacts option to test_decoding for use in the regression tests.

The regression tests for contrib/test_decoding regularly failed on
postgres instances that were very slow. Either because the hardware
itself was slow or because very expensive debugging options like
CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS were used.

The reason they failed was just that some additional transactions were
decoded. Analyze and vacuum, triggered by autovac.

To fix just add a option to test_decoding to only display transactions
in which a change was actually displayed. That's not pretty because it
removes information from the tests; but better than constantly failing
tests in very likely harmless ways.

Backpatch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced.

Discussion: 20140629142511.GA26930@awork2.anarazel.de

11 years ago

Robert Haas

b89e151054

Introduce logical decoding.

This feature, building on previous commits, allows the write-ahead log
stream to be decoded into a series of logical changes; that is,
inserts, updates, and deletes and the transactions which contain them.
It is capable of handling decoding even across changes to the schema
of the effected tables.  The output format is controlled by a
so-called "output plugin"; an example is included.  To make use of
this in a real replication system, the output plugin will need to be
modified to produce output in the format appropriate to that system,
and to perform filtering.

Currently, information can be extracted from the logical decoding
system only via SQL; future commits will add the ability to stream
changes via walsender.

Andres Freund, with review and other contributions from many other
people, including Álvaro Herrera, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Peter Gheogegan,
Kevin Grittner, Robert Haas, Heikki Linnakangas, Fujii Masao, Abhijit
Menon-Sen, Michael Paquier, Simon Riggs, Craig Ringer, and Steve
Singer.

12 years ago

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