Re: prevent 006_transfer_modes.pl from leaving files behind

On 2025-04-07 Mo 7:41 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 04:45:52PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> The other pg_upgrade tests chdir to tmp_check prior to running pg_upgrade
>> to avoid leaving behind delete_old_cluster.{sh,bat}. 006_transfer_modes.pl
>> should, too. However, this test is a little different because it loops
>> over all of the available transfer modes and runs pg_upgrade for each one
>> supported by the platform. From my testing and code analysis, it seems
>> sufficient to change the directory once at the beginning of the test, but
>> we could alternatively save the current directory and change back to it in
>> each iteration to be safe.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> Hmm. Doing one chdir at the beginning of the test should be OK,
> because we don't do a move to a different directory within the test
> for each transfer mode tested. So your patch looks like the simplest
> thing to do to avoid the generation of these files. Note that
> delete_old_cluster.sh would be left around even if not using a VPATH
> build with ./configure (your commit message does not mention that).
> Even if .gitignore discards it, the file is here.

I don't think that matters. In non-vpath builds we expect the source
directory to be scribbled on. All sorts of things might be left around.

cheers

andrew

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