On 2023-04-26 We 11:30, Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
If I redirect the output to a file (which is what the buildfarm client
actually does), it seems like it completes successfully, but I still get
a non-zero exit:
pgrunner@EC2AMAZ-GCB871B UCRT64 ~/bf
$ /usr/bin/perl -e 'chdir "root/HEAD/instkeep.2023-04-25_11-09-41";
system("bin/pg_ctl -D data-C -l logfile stop > stoplog 2>&1") ; print
"BANG\n" if $?; '
BANG
pgrunner@EC2AMAZ-GCB871B UCRT64 ~/bf
$ cat root/HEAD/instkeep.2023-04-25_11-09-41/stoplog
waiting for server to shut down.... done
server stopped
Thats ... just wacko. do_stop() emits "waiting for server to shut
down...", "done", and "server stopped" in the same way (via print_msg).
How is it that all three messages show up in one context but not the
other? Could wait_for_postmaster_stop or get_pgpid be bollixing the
stdout channel somehow? Try redirecting stdout and stderr separately
to see if that proves anything.
Doesn't seem to prove much:
pgrunner@EC2AMAZ-GCB871B UCRT64 ~/bf
$ /usr/bin/perl -e 'chdir "root/HEAD/instkeep.2023-04-25_11-09-41"; system("bin/pg_ctl -D data-C -l logfile stop > stoplog.out 2> stoplog.err") ; print "BANG\n" if $?; '
BANG
pgrunner@EC2AMAZ-GCB871B UCRT64 ~/bf
$ cat root/HEAD/instkeep.2023-04-25_11-09-41/stoplog.out
waiting for server to shut down.... done
server stopped
pgrunner@EC2AMAZ-GCB871B UCRT64 ~/bf
$ cat root/HEAD/instkeep.2023-04-25_11-09-41/stoplog.err
pgrunner@EC2AMAZ-GCB871B UCRT64 ~/bf
It seems more than odd that we get to where the "server stopped" massage
is printed but we get a failure.
Indeed, that's even weirder. do_stop() returns directly to the
exit(0) in main().
And if I call it via IPC::Run it works:
pgrunner@EC2AMAZ-GCB871B UCRT64 ~/bf
$ /usr/bin/perl -e 'chdir "root/HEAD/instkeep.2023-04-25_11-09-41"; use IPC::Run; my ($out, $err) = ("",""); IPC::Run::run ["bin/pg_ctl", "-D", "data-C", "stop"], \"",\$out,\$err ; print "BANG\n" if $?; print "out: $out\n" if $out; print "err: $err\n" if $err;'
out: waiting for server to shut down.... done
server stopped
It seems there is something odd in how msys perl (not ucrt perl) implements system() that is tickled by this, but why that should only occur when it's built using meson is completely beyond me. It should be just another executable. And pg_ctl is behaving properly as far as we can see. I'm not quite sure where to go from here. I guess I can try to see if we have IPC::Run and if so use it. That would probably get me over the hurdle for fairywren. This has already consumed far too much of my time.
cheers
andrew
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