Re: pltcl regress test?

From: JanWieck(at)t-online(dot)de (Jan Wieck)
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pltcl regress test?
Date: 2000-07-18 11:27:15
Message-ID: 200007181127.NAA10846@hot.jw.home
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Tom Lane wrote:
> JanWieck(at)t-online(dot)de (Jan Wieck) writes:
> > [ pltcl's regress test is failing ]
> > Seems to suffer due to some bug. The functions use a feature
> > of the Tcl interpreter, who treates a backslash followed by a
> > newline as a whitespace that doesn't start a new command
> > (previous command is continued).
>
> > I did some other tests and ISTM that it is totally impossible
> > by now to insert data where backslash is followed by newline
> > at all. At least I wasn't able to quote it properly. Maybe
> > these are filtered already by psql?
>
> Yes, it seems that psql's handling of backslashes has changed for the
> worse.

After Peter's fix to psql I updated the pltcl test expected
result and removed an ordering problem from the test queries.
Should work again now.

Jan

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