From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgsql: Close stdin where it's not needed in TestLib.pm procedures |
Date: | 2019-11-26 12:51:50 |
Message-ID: | 5923a6e0-2528-de1b-725d-adbc131e61a4@2ndQuadrant.com |
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On 11/26/19 3:47 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 02:13:50AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Perhaps the "where possible" caveat needs to include a test whether
>> IO::Pty is installed? It's evidently not there by default everywhere.
>>
>> It's possible that we should just move the goalposts and say IO::Pty
>> is required for TAP testing. I can foresee that we'll have to do
>> that if we ever want automated tests of psql's tab completion,
>> for example.
> Hmm. I am not sure that we are at that point yet (in which case we'd
> need to check after it in configure). Any other modules we require to
> be installed are directly imported to our code, but here we visibly
> have a dependency forced by the loaded code. My point is that it does
> not impact platforms that do not need it, so it seems like a waste to
> require for everybody something which is actually necessary only for a
> portion of users running the TAP tests.
Yeah, I don't want to go that far at this stage at least.
here's my proposed fix.
I will adjust the code that wants to use it to have a block containing
the tests that need the pty code something like this:
SKIP:
{
skip 3, "no Pty support" unless $have_io_pty;
...
}
cheers
andrew
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