Fix for bug #1629

[Sean Gillies]

On Feb 2, 2006, at 7:45 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> On 2/2/06, Umberto Nicoletti <umberto.nicoletti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Note 1: we should really set up some automated tests for stuff like
>>>> this and in particular for regression testing and integrate them in
>>>> the build process.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Agreed. Does this mean you're offering to contribute some tests  
>>> for Sea=
> n
>>> or Frank's test suites? ;)
>>
>> I was thinking about something like that. Stay tuned.
>
> Umberto,
>
> One problem is that it is hard to have test suite
> stuff for external RDBMSes because it is hard to
> duplicate the RDBMS configuration everywhere the
> test suite is run.  That said, if the test suite addition
> includes the SQL script needed to initialize the database
> into "read to use" form, it would be at least reasonably
> useful.
>

At the end of 2005, I committed a PostGIS DB makefile to mapserver/ 
tests/makefile_postgis. The Python unit tests use this fixture.

Sean