Re: Escape output of pg_amcheck test

On 1/7/24 23:27, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The pg_amcheck reports a skip message if the layout of the index does
> not match expectations.  That message includes the bytes that were
> expected and the ones that were found.  But the found ones are arbitrary
> bytes, which can have funny effects on the terminal when they are
> printed.  To avoid that, escape non-word characters before printing.

> + # escape non-word characters to avoid confusing the terminal
> + $b =~ s{(\W)}{ sprintf '\x%02x', ord($1) }aegr);

The /r modifier defeats the purpose of the patch, at least for my perl
version, perl 5, version 28, subversion 1 (v5.28.1). With just the /aeg
modifier, it works fine.

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Mark Dilger