Re: scalability bottlenecks with (many) partitions (and more)

On 2025-03-04 Tu 5:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> I think I found a logic bug. Testing.
> Not sure what you are looking at, but I was trying to fix it
> by making the loop over test modules skip unbuilt modules,
> borrowing the test you added in v19 to skip unbuilt contrib
> modules. It's a little more complicated for the other modules
> because some of them have no .c files to be built, and I could
> not get that to work. I eventually concluded that there's
> something wrong with the "scalar glob()" idiom you used.
> A bit of googling suggested "grep -e, glob()" instead, and
> that seems to work for me. sifaka seems happy with the
> attached patch.

Well, in scalar context it should give us back the first item found, or
undef if nothing is found, AIUI.

But you're right, it might read better if I use a different formulation.

I didn't much like this, though:

+
+        # can't test it if we haven't built it
+        next unless grep -e, glob("$testdir/*.o $testdir/*.obj")
+            or not grep -e, glob("$testdir/*.c");
+

Too many negatives makes my head hurt.

I also note you said in a later email there were issues.

cheers

andrew

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