Re: Having problems generating a code coverage report

Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>

From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Date: 2026-02-17T17:10:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2026-Feb-16, Michael Paquier wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 09:04:44AM +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> > While I certainly can try to locally hack around that further to get it
> > build it feels wrong to post process/patch our own tree to get "official"
> > coverage reporting...
> 
> Are you using a VPATH build?

Nope, it's a straight in-tree build.  I made it work after a few more
failed tries with a call like

GENHTML_FLAGS="-q --legend --ignore-errors unmapped,corrupt,inconsistent,range"
LCOVFLAGS="-q --legend --ignore-errors usage"
make coverage-html

... and we have a nice (??) trace of what errors are being ignored.  I
think this is absolutely bonkers, but who knows when or if lcov and its
tools are going to be fixed in a way that allows our tree to be
processed correctly.

However, it appears that there are problems with the CSS, because the
lines are not colored anymore.  I have no idea how to get this to work,
but you can see the result running lcov 2.0 in
https://coverage.postgresql.org/

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