Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X

On 10/07/2014 09:53 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 10/07/2014 12:15 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> The TAP tests
>>>> are arguably already much easier to debug than pg_regress ever was.
>>> Well, maybe. I wasn't able, after about 5 minutes of searching, to
>>> locate either a log file with details of the failure or the code that
>>> revealed what the test, the expected result, and the actual result
>>> were. It's possible that all that information is there and I just
>>> don't know where to look; it took me a while to learn where the
>>> various logs (postmaster.log, initdb.log, results) left behind by
>>> pg_regress were, too. If that information is not there, then I'd say
>>> it's not easier to debug. If it is and I don't know where to look ...
>>> well then I just need to get educated.
>> The given case seemed pretty opaque to me too. Could we maybe
>> have some documentation about how to debug TAP failures? Or in
>> other words, if they're "arguably" easier to debug, how about
>> presenting that argument?
>>
>> Also to the point: does the buildfarm script know how to collect
>> the information needed to debug a TAP failure?
>>
>>
>
>
> No. In fact, it doesn't yet know how to run those tests. That's on my
> TODO list.
>
>
>

OK, I have a preliminary cut at adding these tests to the client. See
<http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_stage_log.pl?nm=crake&dt=2014-10-07%2015%3A38%3A04&stg=bin-check>
for an example run. The patch is at
<https://github.com/PGBuildFarm/client-code/commit/6f644b779c90b16f96e4454b807e804bde48b563>

I don't much like the idea of doing an install/initdb/start for every
directory in src/bin, though. Can't we at least manage a single
installation directory for all these?

Also I notice that the tests remove their data directories. That could
make collecting any diagnosis data more difficult. Right now, I have no
idea what I'm looking for anyway.

cheers

andrew