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Re: 001_password.pl fails with --without-readline

Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>

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From: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Oleg Tselebrovskiy <o.tselebrovskiy@postgrespro.ru>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2026-02-03T05:42:11Z
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Hi all,


On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 1:43 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com> writes:
> > I too agree that changing the behavior in a back-patch could be risky
> > and it makes sense to leave that part out for now while still
> > addressing the core test robustness issues. I will follow up once I
> > have re-applied the patches and completed testing.
>
> Since we're reaching the end of the January commitfest,
> I went ahead and pushed these patches.  There's still time to
> revise them if your testing uncovers anything undesirable.


Thank you for the update and for pushing the patches.
I will continue testing on the committed code in both readline and
non-readline configurations and will report back if I notice any
unexpected behavior or regressions.

Regards,
Soumya

Commits

  1. Make psql/t/030_pager.pl more robust.

  2. Improve guards against false regex matches in BackgroundPsql.pm.

  3. Fix unsafe pushdown of quals referencing grouping Vars

  4. tests: BackgroundPsql: Fix potential for lost errors on windows