Re: hstore_plpython regression test does not work on Python 3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Oskari Saarenmaa
Subject Re: hstore_plpython regression test does not work on Python 3
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Msg-id 5567FBDE.7040704@ohmu.fi
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In response to Re: hstore_plpython regression test does not work on Python 3  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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29.05.2015, 03:12, Peter Eisentraut kirjoitti:
> On 5/26/15 5:19 PM, Oskari Saarenmaa wrote:
>>> [1] http://pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_history.pl?nm=jaguarundi&br=HEAD
>>
>> Looks like that animal uses Python 3.4.  Python 3.3 and newer versions
>> default to using a random seed for hashing objects into dicts which
>> makes the order of dict elements random; see
>> https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#cmdoption-R
> 
> Ah, good catch.  That explains the, well, randomness.  I can reproduce
> the test failures with PYTHONHASHSEED=2.
> 
> But I haven't been successful getting that environment variable set so
> that it works in the installcheck case.  Instead, I have rewritten the
> tests to use asserts instead of textual comparisons.  See attached
> patch.  Comments?

Looks good to me.

/ Oskari



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