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Re: Increase pltcl test coverage

Jim Nasby <jim.nasby@bluetreble.com>

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From: Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Karl Lehenbauer <karl@flightaware.com>
Date: 2017-01-09T21:12:07Z
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On 1/9/17 1:22 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Pushed with that and some other, mostly-cosmetic changes.
>
> Hmm, looks like the new test cases have turned up a pre-existing bug.
> Some of the buildfarm is showing crashes :-(.  It looks like all the
> unhappy critters are running Tcl 8.4.something, which might be a
> coincidence but I bet not.
>
> I get the impression it's a stack clobber or memory clobber associated
> with reporting Tcl errors back to PG, but haven't been able to isolate
> it yet.

I notice the failures are also on "unusual" platforms, with only 1 being 
x86. Though, that's very possibly the only animals running 8.4...

I'm compiling 8.4 now, will see if I can duplicate.
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Commits

  1. Expand the regression tests for PL/Tcl.