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Re: [PATCH] Add tests for Bitmapset

Greg Burd <greg@burd.me>

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From: Greg Burd <greg@burd.me>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2025-09-15T19:03:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 

On Sep 15 2025, at 2:54 pm, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM Greg Burd <greg@burd.me> wrote:
>> For reference radixtree has:
>>  
>> coverage:      HEAD
>>   lines......: 98.3
>>   functions..: 97.2
>>   branches...: 89.4
>  
> + /* Test negative member in bms_make_singleton */
> + error_caught = false;
> + PG_TRY();
> + {
> + bms_make_singleton(-1);
> + }
> + PG_CATCH();
> + {
> + error_caught = true;
> + FlushErrorState();
> + }
> + PG_END_TRY();
> + EXPECT_TRUE(error_caught);
>  
> This is an anti-pattern for PostgreSQL code. You can't just flush an
> error without aborting a transaction or subtransaction to recover.
> Even if it could be shown that this were harmless here, I think it's a
> terrible idea to have code like this in the tree, as it encourages
> people to do exactly the wrong thing.

Fair enough, I'll rework it.
  
> But backing up a step, this also doesn't really seem like the right
> way to test the error conditions. It deliberately throws away the
> error message. All this verifies is that you caught an error. If you
> let the error escape to the client you could have the expected output
> test that you got the expected message.
>  
> I think it would be a better idea to structure this as a set of
> SQL-callable functions and move a bunch of the logic into SQL.

I'll give that approach a try, thanks for the suggestion.

-greg

> --  
> Robert Haas
> EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

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  1. Minor fixes for test_bitmapset.c

  2. test_bitmapset: Improve random function

  3. Add mem_exceeded_count column to pg_stat_replication_slots.

  4. Tidy-up unneeded NULL parameter checks from SQL function

  5. Remove check for NULL in STRICT function

  6. Fixes for comments in test_bitmapset

  7. Minor fixups of test_bitmapset.c

  8. test_bitmapset: Simplify code of the module

  9. test_bitmapset: Expand more the test coverage

  10. Fix compiler warnings in test_bitmapset

  11. Add a test module for Bitmapset