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Re: prevent immature WAL streaming

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>

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From: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, "masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com" <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, "mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com" <mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com>, "Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com" <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>, Ryo Matsumura <matsumura.ryo@fujitsu.com>
Date: 2021-11-10T13:31:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Also, I think we want
>
> -ok($initfile != $endfile, "$initfile differs from $endfile");
> +ok($initfile ne $endfile, "$initfile differs from $endfile");
>
> The existing coding works as long as all characters of these
> WAL segment names happen to be decimal digits, but ...

Even better style (IMO) would be:

  isnt($initfile, $endfile, "WAL file name has changed");

Or some other more descriptive message of _why_ it should have changed.

- ilmari

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  2. Fix instability in 026_overwrite_contrecord.pl test.

  3. Fix typo

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  5. Remove unstable, unnecessary test; fix typo

  6. Repair two portability oversights of new test

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