[Pgpool-general] is there a way out of degeneration mode

[David Boreham]

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>>I may be able to devote some development resources here to pgpool : I was
>>wondering if some automated test programs/scripts would be useful ?
>>(are there any that exist already ?)
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>I've been doing testings with standard PostgreSQL regression test
>suits. Please look into pgpool's README how to work with it.
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I must confess that I was thinking here about functional tests for 
pgpool functionality.
The posgresql regression test suite used in conjunction with pgpool 
would seem to
provide good test coverage for some of the code : for example handling 
the wire
protocol correctly. But I'm thinking of test cases for scenarios such as 
switchover;
failure to contact either the master or slave (e.g. one or other is 
rebooted); specific
white-box tests for cases that seem likely to cause trouble such as 
mixing update
and select queries in load balance + master_slave mode.