Re: PL/R regression on windows, but not linux with master.

Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com>

From: Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-04-11T00:27:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, 10 Apr 2021 at 20:24, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com> writes:
> > One of our tests purposely throws an error which returns
> > "ERROR:  R interpreter parse error" on linux
> > and
> > "WARNING:  R interpreter parse error" on windows.
>
> That's quite bizarre.  What is the actual error level according to
> the source code, and where is the error being thrown exactly?
>
> I recall that elog.c has some code to force ERROR up to FATAL or
> PANIC in some cases, but it shouldn't ever promote a non-error to
> an ERROR.
>

Well it really is an ERROR, and is being downgraded on windows to WARNING.

I was hoping someone familiar with the code could remember something before
I dig into this tomorrow.

Thanks,
Dave

>
>                         regards, tom lane
>

Commits

  1. Add macro PGWARNING, and make PGERROR available on all platforms.