[libdbi-devel] pgsql test

[<mar...@mh...>]

Hi Peter,

Peter Czanik writes:
 > Hello,
 > This morning I also added postgresql 9.0 to the mix. "make check" failed
 > at test_pgsql.sh. I was running it as root, and postgresql scripts don't
 > like it. So there was an attempt to su to user postgres. There are two
 > problems with it:
 > - on FreeBSD su is in /usr/bin (not in /bin, as the script expects)
 > - there is no postgres user

The test scripts were donated by the Ubuntu and Debian
maintainers. They still contain some OS-specific stuff. I'm not yet
sure how to deal with this. In contrast to other stuff, the "make
check" stuff should run on any platform without platform-specific
patches. So how do we find out whether or not we have to su to a
particular user in order to do administrative tasks on the server? Is
it only Debian-based OSes that handle postgresql access this way? If
that were the case, we could add some code to ./configure to make sure
this test is run appropriately.

 > So I compiled libdbi-drivers as user czanik, ran make check, and now I have:
 > ==================
 > All 3 tests passed
 > ==================
 > 

Actually, I always build software in my regular account. To the best
of my knowledge, only make install requires root privileges. In any
cases, this should be documented somewhere.

regards,
Markus

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