Re: 001_password.pl fails with --without-readline - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 001_password.pl fails with --without-readline
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Msg-id 1122512.1768849291@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 001_password.pl fails with --without-readline  (Oleg Tselebrovskiy <o.tselebrovskiy@postgrespro.ru>)
Responses Re: 001_password.pl fails with --without-readline
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=?UTF-8?B?T2xlZyBUc2VsZWJyb3Zza2l5?= <o.tselebrovskiy@postgrespro.ru> writes:
>> While debugging that I got annoyed that a match failure results
>> in a timeout exit with absolutely no data logged about what output
>> the test got.  So v3-0001 also changes timeout() --- which creates
>> a timeout that aborts the test --- to timer() --- which does what
>> the test author clearly expected, namely just stop waiting for
>> more input.  (There's a thread somewhere around here about making
>> that change more globally, but I went ahead and did it here.)

> I've found your thread about this - [1], and I agree, using
> timer() is better here, we get the stdout and stderr of a timed-out
> query

Thanks for digging that up.  After re-reading that thread I'm feeling
nervous about changing timeout() to timer() in something we need to
back-patch, so I'll leave that change out of the committed patch.
We ought to raise the priority of making that happen, though.

> Also, thanks for making both "pump until" blocks identical, it seemed
> a little strange to have them be different.

Yeah, I couldn't see a reason for that either.

            regards, tom lane



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