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pg_regress has long had provisions for dynamically substituting path names into regression test scripts and result files, but use of that feature has always been a serious pain in the neck, mainly because updating the result files requires tedious manual editing. Let's get rid of that in favor of passing down the paths in environment variables. In addition to being easier to maintain, this way is capable of dealing with path names that require escaping at runtime, for example paths containing single-quote marks. (There are other stumbling blocks in the way of actually building in a path that looks like that, but removing this one seems like a good thing to do.) The key coding rule that makes that possible is to concatenate pieces of a dynamically-variable string using psql's \set command, and then use the :'variable' notation to quote and escape the string for the next level of interpretation. In hopes of making this change more transparent to "git blame", I've split it into two steps. This commit adds the necessary pg_regress.c support and changes all the *.source files in-place so that they no longer require any dynamic translation. The next commit will just "git mv" them into the regular sql/ and expected/ directories. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1655733.1639871614@sss.pgh.pa.us
The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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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.