Re: Testlib.pm vs msys

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Testlib.pm vs msys
Date: 2017-07-25 15:11:41
Message-ID: 7461.1500995501@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 07/24/2017 09:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Seems like the TAP test should fail every time, if this is a full
>> description. But maybe it's part of the answer, so it seems worth
>> experimenting in this direction.

> The test that hangs is the only case where we call pg_ctl via
> command_like. If we use other mechanisms such as command_ok that don't
> try to read the output there is no problem.

What I'm on about is that jacana still succeeds entirely, more than half
the time. If this is a handle-duplication problem, how could it ever
succeed?

regards, tom lane

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