Re: Coverage with make coverage-html is broken on latest Debian using lcov v2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2026-Oct-03, Andres Freund wrote:

> - The intentional use of SIGQUIT shutdowns in a lot of tests leads to
>   incomplete coverage
> 
>   That doesn't trigger gcov / lcov / genhtml errors, but it leads to things
>   being assumed uncovered that aren't.
> 
>   Because we shut down a lot of tap test clusters with immediate mode, this
>   actually has pretty large impact.
> 
>   I've experimented with replacing all the _exit() uses in the backend with
>   something that triggers flushing of the coverage information in some cases
>   that can be considered kinda maybe safe.

We had these threads about this problem
https://postgr.es/m/58ce1068-0cfc-3394-df69-ee0d03aaebb5%402ndquadrant.com
https://postgr.es/m/816a4de5-3f15-4d66-1ec1-791cab2ca6df@gmail.com
but I don't think we did anything about that.

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