postgresql/src/test
Tom Lane 2c8ef9363d Future-proof regression tests against possibly-missing posixrules file.
The IANA time zone folk have deprecated use of a "posixrules" file in
the tz database.  While for now it's our choice whether to keep
supplying one in our own builds, installations built with
--with-system-tzdata will soon be needing to cope with that file not
being present, at least on some platforms.

This causes a problem for the horology test, which expected the
nonstandard POSIX zone spec "CST7CDT" to apply pre-2007 US daylight
savings rules.  That does happen if the posixrules file supplies such
information, but otherwise the test produces undesired results.
To fix, add an explicit transition date rule that matches 2005 practice.
(We could alternatively have switched the test to use some real time
zone, but it seems useful to have coverage of this type of zone spec.)

While at it, update a documentation example that also relied on
"CST7CDT"; use a real-world zone name instead.  Also, document why
the zone names EST5EDT, CST6CDT, MST7MDT, PST8PDT aren't subject to
similar failures when "posixrules" is missing.

Back-patch to all supported branches, since the hazard is the same
for all.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1665379.1592581287@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-06-19 13:55:36 -04:00
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authentication Initial pgindent and pgperltidy run for v13. 2020-05-14 13:06:50 -04:00
examples Update copyrights for 2020 2020-01-01 12:21:45 -05:00
isolation Avoid update conflict out serialization anomalies. 2020-06-11 10:09:47 -07:00
kerberos Extensive code review for GSSAPI encryption mechanism. 2020-01-11 17:14:08 -05:00
ldap Update copyrights for 2020 2020-01-01 12:21:45 -05:00
locale Use perl warnings pragma consistently 2020-04-13 11:55:45 -04:00
mb Fix MB regression tests for WAL-logging of hash indexes. 2017-03-15 07:25:36 -04:00
modules Refactor AlterExtensionContentsStmt grammar 2020-06-13 09:19:30 +02:00
perl Fix walsender error cleanup code 2020-05-15 20:00:52 -04:00
recovery Fix oldest xmin and LSN computation across repslots after advancing 2020-06-18 16:34:59 +09:00
regress Future-proof regression tests against possibly-missing posixrules file. 2020-06-19 13:55:36 -04:00
ssl OpenSSL 3.0.0 compatibility in tests 2020-06-05 11:18:11 +02:00
subscription Fix assertion with relation using REPLICA IDENTITY FULL in subscriber 2020-05-16 18:15:18 +09:00
thread Update copyrights for 2020 2020-01-01 12:21:45 -05:00
Makefile Revert "Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksums" 2018-04-09 19:03:42 +02:00
README Add TAP tests for password-based authentication methods. 2017-03-17 11:34:16 +02:00

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

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

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

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

thread/
  A thread-safety-testing utility used by configure