Re: buildfarm windows checks / tap tests on windows

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2021-03-04T16:10:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On 3/3/21 7:21 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 3/3/21 5:32 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> On 3/3/21 4:42 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 2021-03-03 16:07:13 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>> Here's what I actually got working. Rip out the calls to kill_kill and
>>>> replace them with:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     $psql_primary{stdin} .= "\\q\n";
>>>>     $psql_primary{run}->pump_nb();
>>>>     $psql_standby{stdin} .= "\\q\n";
>>>>     $psql_standby{run}->pump_nb();
>>>>     sleep 2; # give them time to quit
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No hang or signal now.
>>> Hm. I wonder if we can avoid the sleep 2 by doing something like
>>> ->pump(); ->finish(); instead of one pump_nb()? One pump() is needed to
>>> send the \q to psql, and then we need to wait for the process to finish?
>>> I'll try that, but given that I can't reproduce any problems...
>> Looking at the examples in the IPC:Run docco, it looks like we might
>> just be able to replace the pump_nb above with finish, and leave the
>> sleep out. I'll try that.
>
> OK, this worked fine. I'll try it s a recipe in the other places where
> kill_kill is forcing us to skip tests under MSwin32 perl, and see how we go.
>
>


Here's the patch. I didn't see a convenient way of handling the
pg_recvlogical case, so that's unchanged.


cheers


andrew

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Andrew Dunstan
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Commits

  1. Close psql processes gracefully in recovery tests

  2. Fix recovery test hang in 021_row_visibility.pl on windows.