Re: BUG #18988: DROP SUBSCRIPTION locks not-yet-accessed database - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 19:52, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Looks mostly good. How about slightly changing the comment as in attached?
>
> Your suggestion LGTM, I am making back branch patches. I observed
> another behavior change in the test in v13.  The $sdterr is matching
> with error details not with the error code, so for v13 i have to
> modify the error comparison string as [1] whereas with other versions
> it's like [2].  But if we execute this test from psql then I can see
> the same error in v13 as well[3].  Not sure why perl is behaving
> differently.

The error message in PG13 and master branch is different, that is the
reason the test was failing.
The error in master is: could not drop replication slot whereas the
error message in PG13 is: could not drop the replication slot.
The test passes with the below change in PG13:
--- a/src/test/subscription/t/100_bugs.pl
+++ b/src/test/subscription/t/100_bugs.pl
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ my ($ret, $stdout, $stderr) =
 isnt($ret, 0, "replication slot does not exist: exit code not 0");
 like(
        $stderr,
-       qr/ERROR:  replication slot "regress_sub1" does not exist/,
+       qr/ERROR:  could not drop the replication slot "regress_sub1"
on publisher/,
        "could not drop replication slot: error message");

 $node_publisher->safe_psql('postgres', "DROP DATABASE regress_db");

Regards,
Vignesh