Thread: pg_rewind TAP tests won't run in 'remote' mode

pg_rewind TAP tests won't run in 'remote' mode

From
Kingter Wang
Date:
Logged by: Kingter Wang
Email address: kingter(at)gmail(dot)com
PostgreSQL version: 9.5
Operating system: RHEL 6.4 64bit
Description:

pg_rewind TAP tests always run in 'local' mode, even when specify test mode to 'remote’.

Symptom
========
See  pg_rewind test output on console:
The pg_rewind test still run in local mode, when pass test mode as ‘remote’:

$cd src/bin/pg_rewind/
$make check
...
... prove -I ../../../src/test/perl/ --verbose t/*.pl :: local
t/001_basic.pl .......
1..4
ok 1 - pg_rewind local
...
...
All tests successful.
...
...prove -I ../../../src/test/perl/ --verbose t/*.pl :: remote
t/001_basic.pl .......
1..4
ok 1 - pg_rewind local
...

Analysis:
=======
The issue should be due to wrongly compare string for equality with '==' operator in perl script below.
In perl, to compare string for equality, should use 'eq' operator rather than '==' which used for 
compare equality of number. See details in perl document:http://perlmeme.org/howtos/syntax/comparing_values.html

src/bin/pg_rewind/RewindTest.pm:
sub run_pg_rewind
{
...
if ($test_mode == "local")
{
  ...
}
elsif ($test_mode == "remote")
{
...
}
}

attached a simple patch for fix the bug.

Note that, the pg_rewind tests will fail against ‘remote’ mode. 
Current ‘make check’ can pass is because the pg_rewind tests run the ‘local’ mode twice,
and  the ‘remote’ mode was not touched actually.

With the fix, the ‘make check’ will fail against ‘remote’ mode.
$make check
…prove -I ../../../src/test/perl/ --verbose t/*.pl :: remote
t/001_basic.pl .......
1..4
not ok 1 - pg_rewind remote

#   Failed test 'pg_rewind remote'
#   at RewindTest.pm line 236.
not ok 2 - table content: query result matches
not ok 3 - truncation: query result matches
….

Best Regards,
Kingter
   
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Re: pg_rewind TAP tests won't run in 'remote' mode

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
On 4/7/15 3:22 AM, Kingter Wang wrote:
> Logged by: Kingter Wang
> Email address: kingter(at)gmail(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 9.5
> Operating system: RHEL 6.4 64bit
> Description:
>
> pg_rewind TAP tests always run in 'local' mode, even when specify test
> mode to 'remote’.

Yes, we already discovered that and are discussing a fix (on -hackers).