Re: Bogus reports from coverage.postgresql.org

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bogus reports from coverage.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-03-14 20:45:04
Message-ID: 16248.1521060304@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> Hmm. I wonder if this means that the reports generated with any
> compiler prior to gcc 8 are unreliable. At least we know now that that
> is indeed the case with branch coverage, but what about without?

Well, that's probably an overly strong conclusion; if lcov were broken
in general, people would've noticed before now. I have a question in
to the lcov mailing list at sourceforge to see if anyone wants to offer
a more informed opinion, though.

In the short term it seems clear that we'd better turn off
lcov_branch_coverage at coverage.postgresql.org, as I see you've
already done.

regards, tom lane

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