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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