Switch to pgxn-tools based testing

[jnasbyupgrade]

Re-opens the pgxn-tools testing work (originally PR #1, which was merged as a merge commit rather than a squash; master has since been rolled back to the pre-merge state d191ef1).

Rescoped: this branch previously scope-crept into also carrying the SQL style linter integration (a duplicate of #16's content, pulled in by a merge to resolve a ci.yml conflict) and a cat_tools 0.3.0 dependency fix. Both have been split out:

• The linter integration lives solely in Add SQL style linter (vendored Postgres-Extensions/linter) #16 now — this branch no longer duplicates it.
• The cat_tools 0.3.0 adaptation (renamed function call, two new object_type enum members classified as unsupported) is now Adapt to cat_tools 0.3.0: renamed function, two new object types #28.

This branch is rebuilt fresh on top of current master containing only the actual CI/pgxn-tools migration:

• .github/workflows/ci.yml (new): a changes job (docs-only gate + PG-major-matrix derivation from two constants, NEWEST=18/CURRENT_FLOOR=12), a test matrix job (container: pgxn/pgxn-tools, PostgreSQL 12-18), and an all-checks-passed aggregation gate.
• .travis.yml and pg-travis-test.sh deleted (superseded by the above).
• test/dump/run.sh: added -X flags to several psql invocations, disabling ~/.psqlrc so test runs are deterministic.

(.gitignore's .claude/settings.local.json line from the original diff was dropped — current master already ignores it via the broader existing .claude/*.local.json pattern.)

CI status

Live and green: this branch's own CI (all 7 PostgreSQL majors, 12-18, plus all-checks-passed) passes cleanly as-is. Earlier drafts of this split assumed it would need #28 (cat_tools 0.3.0) to merge first, since PGXN's package index used to be stuck on a broken 0.2.1 cat_tools release — that's no longer the case, PGXN now serves 0.3.0 directly, so make test's pgxn install --unstable cat_tools already resolves correctly without any change here.

Once #16 (SQL style linter) also merges, a small follow-up will be needed here to fold its lint job into this ci.yml (as the first, top-priority job ahead of the test matrix, per the reasoning previously written up when the two were briefly merged together). Not done in this PR — keeping this branch scoped to just the CI/pgxn-tools migration.

#28 (cat_tools 0.3.0 adaptation) is unrelated to this PR going green, but is still a real, worthwhile correctness fix independent of CI — no required merge order between the two now.

[coderabbitai]

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds GitHub Actions CI for PostgreSQL versions 17 through 10 using the pgxn/pgxn-tools container. Updates regression options and test setup for PostgreSQL 13+, installs pgtap with --sudo, and creates the test SQL directory. Dump and restore scripts now invoke psql with -X. Related changelog and ignore-file entries are included. The previous Travis CI configuration and test helper script were removed.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant GitHub Actions
participant pgxn/pgxn-tools
participant PostgreSQL
GitHub Actions->>pgxn/pgxn-tools: Run make test with PGUSER=postgres
pgxn/pgxn-tools->>PostgreSQL: Execute tests for matrix version
PostgreSQL-->>pgxn/pgxn-tools: Return test results
pgxn/pgxn-tools-->>GitHub Actions: Return test status

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Possibly related issues

• Add GitHub Actions CI for pgxntool + pgxntool-test pgxntool-test#15 — Adds the GitHub Actions PostgreSQL matrix and pgxn/pgxn-tools container approach described by the issue.

Poem

A rabbit hops through CI green,
From Postgres ten to seventeen.
Old flags rest, new tests take flight,
Dumps stay tidy, sessions right.
make test thumps its carrot drum—
“Across the matrix, here we come!”

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

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Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: migrating testing to pgxn-tools.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the pgxn-tools migration, CI changes, removed Travis files, and test updates.

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[coderabbitai]

Actionable comments posted: 2

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⚠️ Outside diff range comments (1)

.github/workflows/ci.yml (1)

1-18: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add a permissions block to restrict default token permissions.

The workflow has no permissions: block, so the GITHUB_TOKEN gets the repo's default permissions, which may include write access to contents, packages, etc. Since this job only runs tests, it should use read-only or empty permissions.

🔒️ Proposed fix

 name: CI
on: [push, pull_request]
+permissions:+ contents: read
jobs:
test:

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents

Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
In @.github/workflows/ci.yml around lines 1 - 18, Add a top-level permissions
block to the CI workflow, before jobs, granting the GITHUB_TOKEN no permissions
(or only the minimum read access required by actions/checkout). Keep the
existing test job, PostgreSQL matrix, and steps unchanged.

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Around line 10-15: Pin the pgxn/pgxn-tools container to an immutable image
digest and pin actions/checkout to a full commit SHA instead of mutable tags. In
the checkout step, set persist-credentials to false.
In `@pgxntool/base.mk`:
- Around line 60-64: Fix the version-gated condition in the Makefile by changing
the malformed `ifeq` expression to use `$(call test, $(MAJORVER), -lt, 130)`,
matching the argument pattern used by the existing condition and the scaled
`MAJORVER` values. Keep the `REGRESS_OPTS += --load-language=plpgsql` assignment
unchanged.
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Outside diff comments:
In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Around line 1-18: Add a top-level permissions block to the CI workflow, before
jobs, granting the GITHUB_TOKEN no permissions (or only the minimum read access
required by actions/checkout). Keep the existing test job, PostgreSQL matrix,
and steps unchanged.

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• pgxntool/setup.sh
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• test/dump/run.sh

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[coderabbitai]

🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win

Fix Makefile syntax error: --load-language=plpgsql is never added for any PostgreSQL version.

Line 62 has two defects that prevent the version-gated REGRESS_OPTS addition from ever executing:

1. $($call typo — should be $(call. The extra $ causes GNU Make to interpret $c as a single-char variable reference (undefined → empty), making the outer $(all test, …) resolve to an undefined variable → empty string. The ifeq always evaluates to false.

2. Missing comma and wrong comparison value — -lt 13 is passed as a single argument to the test function (which expects 3 comma-separated args), and the value should be 130 not 13 because MAJORVER is already multiplied by 10 (line 51: PG 12 → 120, PG 13 → 130). Even with the $(call fix, test 120 -lt 13 is false for PG 12.

Compare with the correct pattern on line 56: $(call test, $(MAJORVER), -ge, 91).

🐛 Proposed fix for line 62

-ifeq ($($call test, $(MAJORVER), -lt 13), yes)+ifeq ($(call test, $(MAJORVER), -lt, 130), yes)
REGRESS_OPTS += --load-language=plpgsql
endif

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	endif
	#DATA = $(wildcard sql/*--*.sql)
	ifeq ($($call test, $(MAJORVER), -lt 13), yes)
	REGRESS_OPTS += --load-language=plpgsql
	endif
	endif
	ifeq ($(call test, $(MAJORVER), -lt, 130), yes)
	REGRESS_OPTS += --load-language=plpgsql
	endif

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents

Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
In `@pgxntool/base.mk` around lines 60 - 64, Fix the version-gated condition in
the Makefile by changing the malformed `ifeq` expression to use `$(call test,
$(MAJORVER), -lt, 130)`, matching the argument pattern used by the existing
condition and the scaled `MAJORVER` values. Keep the `REGRESS_OPTS +=
--load-language=plpgsql` assignment unchanged.

[jnasbyupgrade]

@claude please review this PR.

[claude]

Claude finished @jnasbyupgrade's task in 2m 51s —— View job

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Review: Switch to pgxn-tools based testing

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Summary

This is a clean re-application of the original pgxn-tools CI migration (matches the 728f815 state described in the PR body). Most of the diff is low-risk mechanical changes (-X flags on psql, mkdir -p test/sql, --sudo for pgtap, HISTORY.asc notes). Two issues are worth calling out, one real bug and one confirmed-expected failure:

1. Confirmed: pre-existing CREATE EXTENSION/"oid" failure is out of scope for this PR, as the description says.
I pulled the CI logs for the last 3 failed runs (e.g. run 29125633147, job for PG 17, and run 29125374810, job for PG 12). Both fail identically at:

psql:test/load.sql:8: ERROR: 42701: column "oid" specified more than once
psql:test/helpers/object_table.sql:13: ERROR: 3F000: schema "cat_tools" does not exist

This reproduces on every PostgreSQL version tested (10–17), confirming this is the pre-existing bug the PR description says is fixed separately in the new_features branch (PR #2). Not something to fix here.

2. Real bug (independent of the above): pgxntool/base.mk:62 — the PG<13 --load-language=plpgsql gate never fires.

ifeq ($($call test, $(MAJORVER), -lt 13), yes)
REGRESS_OPTS += --load-language=plpgsql
endif

Two problems:

• $($call is a typo for $(call — the stray $ makes Make treat $c as an (undefined/empty) variable reference, so the whole condition collapses to empty and ifeq is always false.
• Even fixed, -lt 13 is a single argument to the 3-arg test helper (needs a comma), and the value should be 130, not 13, since MAJORVER is pre-scaled by 10 (see line 51 and the working example on line 56: $(call test, $(MAJORVER), -ge, 91)).

Correct form:

ifeq ($(call test, $(MAJORVER), -lt, 130), yes)
REGRESS_OPTS += --load-language=plpgsql
endif

This means PG <13 regression runs are silently missing --load-language=plpgsql right now. It's currently masked by issue #1 (everything fails before this would matter), but it should still be fixed since it's a distinct, real defect and will bite as soon as #1 is resolved.

Fix this →

3. Optional hardening (not blocking): .github/workflows/ci.yml
CodeRabbit/zizmor flagged supply-chain items that are reasonable for a public repo but low priority for this project:

• No top-level permissions: block (defaults to broad GITHUB_TOKEN scope).
• actions/checkout@v4 and container: pgxn/pgxn-tools are unpinned (mutable tag), and checkout doesn't set persist-credentials: false.

None of these affect correctness or the current failures; worth doing at some point but not a reason to hold this PR.

Fix this →

4. Minor/unrelated: the .gitignore addition of .claude/settings.local.json is fine but is unrelated to the CI migration — just a scope note, not a problem.

5. Minor suggestion: the matrix has no fail-fast: false, so a failure on one PG version cancels the rest (visible in the run details — only one job actually runs to failure per attempt). Once the oid bug is fixed elsewhere, setting fail-fast: false here would give full visibility across all 8 versions in a single run instead of needing multiple pushes.

Bottom line

The CI plumbing itself (workflow file, dump script -X flags, pgtap --sudo, test/sql dir creation) looks correct. The base.mk:62 version-gate bug (#2) is a real, independent defect worth fixing alongside this PR. The oid failure (#1) is confirmed as pre-existing/out-of-scope per the PR description and needs the new_features branch (PR #2) merged first before this branch can go green.