Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X
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Msg-id 1412640931.30485.3.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X
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On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 21:18 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > If none of this gets us closer to an answer, I can try to produce a
> > patch that produces more details for such failures.
> 
> A test that fails for no reason that can be gleaned from the output is
> not an improvement over not having a test at all.

I understand that this isn't great, and it's certainly something I'm
looking into.  But it's like pg_regress saying that psql crashed and
leaving you to find out why.  I don't think saying that the entire
regression test suite is useless because of that is fair.  The TAP tests
are arguably already much easier to debug than pg_regress ever was.





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