Recently Mark observed that we now all need a storage
engine independent test suite, Sun included! Well, as far as I
know, there is such a thing at Sun, sort of. Apparently it has
been used to test PBXT and other engines, but I've heard it is
not in good enough shape to be released.
But my question is, why not release it anyway? We could turn it
into an engine community project. I believe there are enough
engine developers out there to get this moving forward.
The secret is to start small, and just get a few tests to run
with all engines. Then additional tests can be added step by
step. Engines need a way to specify that they want to skip a test
entirely (e.g. transactional tests), and it should be easy to
customize results for various engines.
An example of a simple and elegant solution can be found in
Drizzle. As …
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