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<title id="regress-title">Regression Tests</title>

For example,

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<prompt>root# </prompt><userinput>chmod -R a+w src/test/regress</userinput>

<prompt>root# </prompt><userinput>chmod -R a+w contrib/spi</userinput>

<prompt>root# </prompt><userinput>su - joeuser</userinput>

<prompt>joeuser$ </prompt><userinput>cd &lt;build top-level directory&gt;</userinput>

<prompt>joeuser$ </prompt><userinput>gmake check</userinput>

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(The only possible <quote>security risk</quote> here is that other