Re: Test to dump and restore objects left behind by regression

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 2025-Mar-27, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > > Couple of minor thoughts:
> > > 1) I felt this error message is not conveying the error message correctly:
> > > + if ($src_node->pg_version != $dst_node->pg_version
> > > + or defined $src_node->{_install_path})
> > > + {
> > > + fail("same version dump and restore test using default
> > > installation");
> > > + return;
> > > + }
> > >
> > > how about something like below:
> > > fail("source and destination nodes must have the same PostgreSQL
> > > version and default installation paths");
> >
> > The text in ok(), fail() etc. are test names and not error messages.
> > See [1]. Your suggestion and other versions that I came up with became
> > too verbose to be test names. So I think the text here is compromise
> > between conveying enough information and not being too long. We
> > usually have to pick the testname and lookup the test code to
> > investigate the failure. This text serves that purpose.
>
> Maybe
> fail("roundtrip dump/restore of the regression database")

No, that's losing some information like default installation and the
same version.

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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat