Re: bailing out in tap tests nearly always a bad idea

On 2/14/22 12:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>> Even just getting rid of the "Tests were run but no plan was declared and
>> done_testing() was not seen." noise would be helpful. So I think using a fatal
>> error routine that forced a failure to be recognized via ok(0, 'fatal error')
>> and then does done_testing() would be better...
> Maybe we could do something in an END block provided by Utils.pm?
> I still think that insisting that people avoid die() is going to
> be annoying.
>
>

See references to $SIG{__DIE__} in `perldoc-f die` and `perldoc perlvar`
for how to set up a handler for die() cleanup. Maybe we could set up a
handler that calls done_testing(). ?

cheers

andrew

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