A system for managing unit test data in Postgres.
Documentation for the most recent version is on PGXN.
You can see the current status of released versions of this extension on PGXN-tester.
Install pgxn-client, then do:
pgxn install test_factory
or
pgxn load -d database_name test_factory
(Run pgxn --help for more info.)
To build it, just do this:
make
make installcheck
make install
If you encounter an error such as:
"Makefile", line 8: Need an operator
You need to use GNU make, which may well be installed on your system as
gmake
:
gmake
gmake install
gmake installcheck
If you encounter an error such as:
make: pg_config: Command not found
Be sure that you have pg_config
installed and in your path. If you used a
package management system such as RPM to install PostgreSQL, be sure that the
-devel
package is also installed. If necessary tell the build process where
to find it:
env PG_CONFIG=/path/to/pg_config make && make installcheck && make install
And finally, if all that fails (and if you're on PostgreSQL 8.1 or lower, it
likely will), copy the entire distribution directory to the contrib/
subdirectory of the PostgreSQL source tree and try it there without
pg_config
:
env NO_PGXS=1 make && make installcheck && make install
If you encounter an error such as:
ERROR: must be owner of database regression
You need to run the test suite using a super user, such as the default "postgres" super user:
make installcheck PGUSER=postgres
Once test_factory is installed, you can add it to a database. If you're running PostgreSQL 9.1.0 or greater, it's a simple as connecting to a database as a super user and running:
CREATE EXTENSION test_factory;
If you've upgraded your cluster to PostgreSQL 9.1 and already had test_factory installed, you can upgrade it to a properly packaged extension with:
CREATE EXTENSION test_factory FROM unpackaged;
For versions of PostgreSQL less than 9.1.0, you'll need to run the installation script:
psql -d mydb -f /path/to/pgsql/share/contrib/test_factory.sql
If you want to install test_factory and all of its supporting objects into a specific
schema, use the PGOPTIONS
environment variable to specify the schema, like
so:
PGOPTIONS=--search_path=extensions psql -d mydb -f test_factory.sql
Copyright (c) 2015 Jim Nasby [email protected].