pgTAP is a unit testing framework for PostgreSQL written
in PL/pgSQL and PL/SQL. It includes a comprehensive collection of
TAP-emitting assertion functions, as well as the
ability to integrate with other TAP-emitting test frameworks. It can also be
used in the xUnit testing style. For detailed documentation, see the
documentation in doc/pgtap.mmd or
online.
pgTAP must be installed on a host with PostgreSQL server running; it cannot be installed remotely.
To build it, just do this:
make
make install
make installcheck
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
Or:
Makefile:52: *** pgTAP requires PostgreSQL 9.1 or later. This is . Stop.
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 install && make installcheck
And finally, if all that fails, 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 install && make installcheck
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
If you encounter an error such as:
ERROR: Missing extensions required for testing: citext isn ltree
Install the PostgreSQL
Additional Supplied Modules,
which are required to run the tests. If you used a package management system
such as RPM to install PostgreSQL, install the -contrib package.
Once pgTAP is installed, you can add it to a database by connecting as a super user and running:
CREATE EXTENSION pgtap;
If you've upgraded your cluster to PostgreSQL 9.1 and already had pgTAP installed, you can upgrade it to a properly packaged extension with:
CREATE EXTENSION pgtap FROM unpackaged;
If you want to install pgTAP and all of its supporting objects into a specific
schema, use the SCHEMA clause to specify the schema, like so:
CREATE EXTENSION pgtap SCHEMA tap;
pgTAP requires PostgreSQL 9.1 or higher.
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