Doc: make src/test/*/README match current reality.

tglsfdc · tglsfdc · commit e2c78e7ab4b6 · 2023-02-07T14:30:30.000-05:00
Commit c3382a3, which moved the implementation of PG_TEST_EXTRA from src/test/Makefile into individual test scripts, broke the directions given in the subdirectory README files about how to run these tests by hand. Update. Also mention wal_consistency_checking in recovery/README --- that omission isn't the fault of c3382a3, but it's still an omission.
diff --git a/src/test/kerberos/README b/src/test/kerberos/README
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ Running the tests
 NOTE: You must have given the --enable-tap-tests argument to configure.
 
 Run
-    make check
+    make check PG_TEST_EXTRA=kerberos
 or
-    make installcheck
+    make installcheck PG_TEST_EXTRA=kerberos
 You can use "make installcheck" if you previously did "make install".
 In that case, the code in the installation tree is tested.  With
 "make check", a temporary installation tree is built from the current
diff --git a/src/test/ldap/README b/src/test/ldap/README
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ Running the tests
 NOTE: You must have given the --enable-tap-tests argument to configure.
 
 Run
-    make check
+    make check PG_TEST_EXTRA=ldap
 or
-    make installcheck
+    make installcheck PG_TEST_EXTRA=ldap
 You can use "make installcheck" if you previously did "make install".
 In that case, the code in the installation tree is tested.  With
 "make check", a temporary installation tree is built from the current
diff --git a/src/test/recovery/README b/src/test/recovery/README
@@ -24,4 +24,9 @@ sources and then tested.
 Either way, this test initializes, starts, and stops several test Postgres
 clusters.
 
+If you want to test WAL consistency checking, add
+PG_TEST_EXTRA=wal_consistency_checking
+to the "make" command.  This is resource-intensive, so it's not done
+by default.
+
 See src/test/perl/README for more info about running these tests.
diff --git a/src/test/ssl/README b/src/test/ssl/README
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ Also, to use "make installcheck", you must have built and installed
 contrib/sslinfo in addition to the core code.
 
 Run
-    make check
+    make check PG_TEST_EXTRA=ssl
 or
-    make installcheck
+    make installcheck PG_TEST_EXTRA=ssl
 You can use "make installcheck" if you previously did "make install".
 In that case, the code in the installation tree is tested.  With
 "make check", a temporary installation tree is built from the current
