Re: Rewriting the test of pg_upgrade as a TAP test - take three - remastered set - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> I thought it was a goal that VPATH builds shouldn't pollute the source
> tree, but the Make macro prove_check is explicitly doing so by
> default.  Perhaps *that* should be fixed?

Indeed.  That seems broken by definition.

More generally, I thought we'd established a convention that
all files made by TAP tests should be put inside the tmp_check
directory, to simplify cleanup and .gitignore rules.  But in
a VPATH build, tmp_check ought to live in the build tree.

            regards, tom lane