Re: Range checks of pg_test_fsync --secs-per-test and pg_test_timing --duration

On 2020-09-20 05:41, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 05:22:15PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Okay, after looking at that, here is v3. This includes range checks
>> as well as errno checks based on strtol(). What do you think?
>
> This fails in the CF bot on Linux because of pg_logging_init()
> returning with errno=ENOTTY in the TAP tests, for which I began a new
> thread:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20200918095713.GA20887@paquier.xyz
>
> Not sure if this will lead anywhere, but we can also address the
> failure by enforcing errno=0 for the new calls of strtol() introduced
> in this patch. So here is an updated patch doing so.

I think the error checking is now structurally correct in this patch.

However, I still think the integer type use is a bit inconsistent. In
both cases, using strtoul() and dealing with unsigned integer types
between parsing and final use would be more consistent.

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