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Tom Lane authored
Quite a few of our built-in system views were not exercised anywhere in the regression tests. This is perhaps not so exciting for the ones that are simple projections/joins of system catalogs, but for the ones that are wrappers for set-returning C functions, the omission translates directly to lack of test coverage for those functions. In many cases, the reason for the omission is that the view doesn't have much to do with any specific SQL feature, so there's no natural place to test it. To remedy that, invent a new script sysviews.sql that's dedicated to testing SRF-based views. Move a couple of tests that did fit this charter into the new script, and add simple "count(*)" based tests of other views within the charter. That's enough to ensure we at least exercise the main code path through the SRF, although it does little to prove that the output is sane. More could be done here, no doubt, and I hope someone will think about how we can test these views more thoroughly. But this is a starting point. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19359.1485723741@sss.pgh.pa.us
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