
In commit 18555b132 we tentatively established a rule that regression tests should use names containing "regression" for databases, and names starting with "regress_" for all other globally-visible object names, so as to circumscribe the side-effects that "make installcheck" could have on an existing installation. However, no enforcement mechanism was created, so it's unsurprising that some new violations have crept in since then. In fact, a whole new *category* of violations has crept in, to wit we now also have globally-visible subscription and replication origin names, and "make installcheck" could very easily clobber user-created objects of those types. So it's past time to do something about this. This commit sanitizes the tests enough that they will pass (i.e. not generate any visible warnings) with the enforcement mechanism I'll add in the next commit. There are some TAP tests that still trigger the warnings, but the warnings do not cause test failure. Since these tests do not actually run against a pre-existing installation, there's no need to worry whether they could conflict with user-created objects. The problem with rolenames.sql testing special role names like "user" is still there, and is dealt with only very cosmetically in this patch (by hiding the warnings :-(). What we actually need to do to be safe is to take that test script out of "make installcheck" altogether, but that seems like material for a separate patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16638.1468620817@sss.pgh.pa.us
The PostgreSQL contrib tree --------------------------- This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their usefulness. User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML documentation. When building from the source distribution, these modules are not built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected module, do the same in that module's subdirectory. Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database, you can simply do CREATE EXTENSION module_name; See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this procedure.