Re: PSA: we lack TAP test coverage on NetBSD and OpenBSD

From: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PSA: we lack TAP test coverage on NetBSD and OpenBSD
Date: 2019-01-18 22:01:07
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.21.1901182257480.20734@lancre
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>> Maybe on OpenBSD pg should switch srandom to srandom_deterministic?
>
> Dunno. I'm fairly annoyed by their idea that they're smarter than POSIX.
> However, for most of our uses of srandom, this behavior isn't awful;
> it's only pgbench that has an expectation that the platform random()
> can be made to behave deterministically. And TBH I think that's just
> an expectation that's going to bite us.
>
> I'd suggest that maybe we should get rid of the use of both random()
> and srandom() in pgbench, and go over to letting set_random_seed()
> fill the pg_erand48 state directly. In the integer-seed case you
> could use something equivalent to pg_srand48. (In the other cases
> probably you could do better, certainly the strong-random case could
> just fill all 6 bytes directly.) That would get us to a place where
> the behavior of --random-seed=N is not only deterministic but
> platform-independent, which seems like an improvement.

That's a point. Althought I'm not found of round48, indeed having
something platform independent for testing makes definite sense.

I'll look into it.

--
Fabien.

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