[postgis-devel] New make garden rule

[Paul Ramsey]

Mostly we've been using the garden tests to find segfaults so far.
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On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 7:08 AM, strk <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 01:40:35PM +0100, Olivier Courtin wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2010, at 1:00 PM, strk wrote:
>>
>> >On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 04:09:27PM +0100, Olivier Courtin wrote:
>> >
>> >>I've add a new 'make garden' rule in main Makefile.
>> >>It launch full Garden Test regression process.
>> >
>> >Sorry for my ignorance, but what is a Garden Test ?
>>
>> It's the regression tests writted by Regina, and based upon
>> PostGIS documentation functions prototypes.
>>
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/DevWikiGardenTest
>>
>> It's usefull to see if Postgis just don't crash on some functions
>> with peculiar geometry input.
>> Or if some functions returns unwanted lwerror...
>
> Neat, I'm gonna love it!
> What's the recomended way to check if an error occurred ?
> I got not "failure" notice but saw lots of "aborted transaction"
> messages flying by. Things like:
>
>  ERROR:  function st_point(numeric, integer) does not exist
>  LINE 2:    FROM ((SELECT ST_SetSRID(ST_Point(i,j),4326) As the_geom
>
> As long as the script tries to use documented calls this sounds
> like a failure to me...
>
> Results report (found but not properly advertised by 'make garden')
> is here (volatile): http://foo.keybit.net/~strk/tmp/garden_result.txt.gz
>
> Not sure it also contains stderr.
>
> --strk;
>
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