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[Lee Bieber <kalebral@xxxxxxxxx>]

Very glad to see this change, thanks for taking care of this!

-Lee

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:43 AM, John Embretsen <John.Embretsen@xxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>
> *** READ THIS IF YOU USE THE RANDOM QUERY GENERATOR ***
>
> RQG development branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~randgen/randgen/rqg2<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Erandgen/randgen/rqg2>
>
>
> I propose to implement an *incompatible change* to the directory
> structure of the Random Query Generator, in order to define "categories"
> of tests and test resources.
>
> I plan to make this change in the middle of next week, specifically on
> Wednesday 2010-02-24 (unless someone objects strongly).
>
> If you pull from the randgen repository on Launchpad after that, beware
> of this change. Let me know if you think you need more time to adjust.
>
>
> DETAILS:
>
>
> This change will for example make it easier to maintain, run, monitor
> etc. a given group of tests, and we avoid ending up with a single
> directory with hundreds of various config files.
>
> The only directory to be affected is the RQG's "conf" directory.
>
> When implemented and deployed, this will mean that any scripts etc.
> referring to RQG configuration files (grammars (.yy), gendata files
> (.zz), etc.) need to be updated with correct file paths.
>
> Note that with this change, paths to config files as described in
> various bug reports will no longer work as described, however it should
> be easy to adjust as needed.
>
>
> Example change:
>
> Old: perl runall.pl --grammar=conf/signal_resignal.yy (...)
>
> New: perl runall.pl --grammar=conf/runtime/signal_resignal.yy (...)
>
>
>
> The proposed structure (under randgen/conf/) is available below.
>
> I cannot rule out the possibility that we will need to make changes to
> this structure later, but hopefully the amount of changes will be kept
> to a minimum, and announced beforehand.
>
>
> Thank you for your attention!
>
>
> Proposed directory structure (categories) under randgen/conf/:
>
> backup
>  * backup_interop.yy
>  * backup_obj.yy
>  * backup_simple.yy
>  * invariant.yy
>  * invariant.zz
>
> drizzle
>  * combinations_drizzle.zz
>  * drizzle.yy
>  * drizzle.zz
>  * many_indexes_drizzle.yy
>  * many_indexes_drizzle.zz
>  * subquery_drizzle.yy
>  * subquery_materialization_drizzle.yy
>  * subquery_semijoin_drizzle.yy
>  * subquery_semijoin_nested_drizzle.yy
>  * varchar_drizzle.zz
>
> engines
>  * blobs.yy
>  * engine_stress.yy
>  * engine_stress.zz
>  * many_indexes.yy
>  * many_indexes.zz
>  * recovery.yy
>  * tiny_inserts.yy
>  * tiny_inserts.zz
>  * varchar.yy
>  * varchar.zz
>  falcon
>    * falcon_backlog.yy
>    * falcon_backlog.zz
>    * falcon_blobs.yy
>    * falcon_blobs.zz
>    * falcon_chill_thaw.yy
>    * falcon_chill_thaw.zz
>    * falcon_data_types_no_year_time.yy
>    * falcon_data_types_no_year_time.zz
>    * falcon_data_types.yy
>    * falcon_data_types.zz
>    * falcon_ddl.yy
>    * falcon_limit.yy
>    * falcon_nolimit_int.yy
>    * falcon_nolimit.yy
>    * falcon_online_alter.yy
>    * falcon_pagesize.yy
>    * falcon_pagesize2K.zz
>    * falcon_pagesize32K.zz
>    * falcon_recovery.yy
>    * falcon_recovery.zz
>    * falcon_replication.yy
>    * falcon_replication.zz
>    * falcon_select_autocommit.yy
>    * falcon_simple.cc
>    * falcon_varchar.cc
>    * limit_compare.yy
>  innodb
>    * innodb_simple.cc
>  maria
>    * maria_bulk_insert.yy
>    * maria_dml_alter.yy
>    * maria_mostly_selects.yy
>    * maria_stress.yy
>    * maria.zz
>
> examples
>  * example.ff
>  * example.yy
>  * example.zz
>  * flightstats.yy
>
> i18n
>  * collations.yy
>
> optimizer
>  * optimizer_basic.yy
>  * optimizer_no_subquery_portable.yy
>  * optimizer_no_subquery.yy
>  * optimizer_simple.yy
>  * optimizer_subquery_portable.yy
>  * optimizer_subquery.yy
>  * optimizer.cc
>  * outer_join_portable.yy
>  * outer_join.yy
>  * outer_join.zz
>  * range_access.yy
>  * range_access.zz
>  archive
>    * join.yy
>    * subquery_materialization.yy
>    * subquery_semijoin_nested.yy
>    * subquery_semijoin.yy
>    * subquery-5.1.yy
>    * subquery.yy
>
> partitioning
>  * partition_pruning.yy
>  * partition_pruning.zz
>  * partitions_procedures_triggers.yy
>  * partitions-ddl.yy
>  * partitions-wl4571.yy
>
> replication
>  * replication_innodb_myisam.zz
>  * replication_simple.yy
>  * replication_single_engine_pk.zz
>  * replication_single_engine.zz
>  * replication-5.1.zz
>  * replication-6.0.zz
>  * replication-ddl_data.zz
>  * replication-ddl_sql.yy
>  * replication-dml_data.zz
>  * replication-dml_sql.yy
>  * replication.yy
>
> runtime
>  * create_drop.yy
>  * information_schema.yy
>  * metadata_locking.cc
>  * metadata_stability.yy
>  * metadata_stability.zz
>  * performance_schema.yy
>  * signal_resignal.yy
>  * WL5004_data.zz
>  * WL5004_sql.yy
>
> transactions
>  * combinations.yy
>  * combinations.zz
>  * repeatable_read.yy
>  * transaction_durability.yy
>  * transactions-flat.yy
>  * transactions.yy
>  * transactions.zz
>
>
> New config files should be placed in appropriate categories /
> directories depending on the main purpose of the file.
> Additional categories may be introduced later if needed.
>
>
> --
> John H. Embretsen
>
>
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