Re: pltcl regress test?
Jan Wieck <janwieck@t-online.de>
From: JanWieck@t-online.de (Jan Wieck)
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-07-18T11:27:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> JanWieck@t-online.de (Jan Wieck) writes:
> > [ pltcl's regress test is failing ]
> > Seems to suffer due to some bug. The functions use a feature
> > of the Tcl interpreter, who treates a backslash followed by a
> > newline as a whitespace that doesn't start a new command
> > (previous command is continued).
>
> > I did some other tests and ISTM that it is totally impossible
> > by now to insert data where backslash is followed by newline
> > at all. At least I wasn't able to quote it properly. Maybe
> > these are filtered already by psql?
>
> Yes, it seems that psql's handling of backslashes has changed for the
> worse.
After Peter's fix to psql I updated the pltcl test expected
result and removed an ordering problem from the test queries.
Should work again now.
Jan
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