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diff --git a/src/test/README b/src/test/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5587422d522 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/test/README @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +PostgreSQL tests +================ + +This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the +tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in +individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin. + +Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see +which tests get run automatically. + +examples/ + Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via + "make check" + +isolation/ + Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level + +locale/ + Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc + +mb/ + Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support + +modules/ + Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable + for installing in production databases + +perl/ + Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests + +regress/ + PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress + +ssl/ + Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling + +thread/ + A thread-safety-testing utility used by configure |