postgresql/src/test
Peter Eisentraut 0413a55699 Improve compression and storage support with inheritance
A child table can specify a compression or storage method different
from its parents.  This was previously an error.  (But this was
inconsistently enforced because for example the settings could be
changed later using ALTER TABLE.)  This now also allows an explicit
override if multiple parents have different compression or storage
settings, which was previously an error that could not be overridden.

The compression and storage properties remains unchanged in a child
inheriting from parent(s) after its creation, i.e., when using ALTER
TABLE ...  INHERIT.  (This is not changed.)

Before this change, the error detail would mention the first pair of
conflicting parent compression or storage methods.  But with this
change it waits till the child specification is considered by which
time we may have encountered many such conflicting pairs.  Hence the
error detail after this change does not include the conflicting
compression/storage methods.  Those can be obtained from parent
definitions if necessary.  The code to maintain list of all
conflicting methods or even the first conflicting pair does not seem
worth the convenience it offers.  This change is inline with what we
do with conflicting default values.

Before this commit, the specified storage method could be stored in
ColumnDef::storage (CREATE TABLE ... LIKE) or ColumnDef::storage_name
(CREATE TABLE ...).  This caused the MergeChildAttribute() and
MergeInheritedAttribute() to ignore a storage method specified in the
child definition since it looked only at ColumnDef::storage.  This
commit removes ColumnDef::storage and instead uses
ColumnDef::storage_name to save any storage method specification. This
is similar to how compression method specification is handled.

Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/24656cec-d6ef-4d15-8b5b-e8dfc9c833a7@eisentraut.org
2024-02-16 13:27:46 +01:00
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authentication Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
examples Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
icu Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
isolation Followup fixes for transaction_timeout 2024-02-16 03:36:38 +02:00
kerberos Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
ldap Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
locale Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
mb Fix MB regression tests for WAL-logging of hash indexes. 2017-03-15 07:25:36 -04:00
modules Apply pg_dump test cleanups to test_pg_dump as well 2024-02-08 21:19:03 +01:00
perl Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests 2024-02-15 10:29:18 +01:00
recovery Disable autovacuum on primary in 040_standby_failover_slots_sync test. 2024-02-16 14:42:50 +05:30
regress Improve compression and storage support with inheritance 2024-02-16 13:27:46 +01:00
ssl Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
subscription Fix buildfarm error from commit 5c31669058. 2024-01-18 14:59:59 -08:00
Makefile Refactor PG_TEST_EXTRA logic in autoconf build 2022-09-20 11:24:16 -07:00
meson.build Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
README Remove the option to build thread_test.c outside configure. 2020-10-21 12:08:48 -04:00

PostgreSQL tests
================

This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the
tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in
individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin.

Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see
which tests get run automatically.

authentication/
  Tests for authentication (but see also below)

examples/
  Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via
  "make check"

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

kerberos/
  Tests for Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication and encryption

ldap/
  Tests for LDAP-based authentication

locale/
  Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc

mb/
  Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support

modules/
  Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable
  for installing in production databases

perl/
  Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests

recovery/
  Test suite for recovery and replication

regress/
  PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress

ssl/
  Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling

subscription/
  Tests for logical replication