File truncation within PostgresNode::issues_sql_like() wrong on Windows

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-04-14T08:13:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Attachments

Hi all,

As fairywren has proved a couple of days ago, it is not really a good
idea to rely on a file truncation to check for patterns in the logs of
the backend:
https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=fairywren&dt=2021-04-07%2013%3A29%3A28

Visibly, a logic based on the log file truncation fails on Windows
because of the concurrent access of the backend that outputs its logs
there.  In PostgresNode.pm, connect_ok() and connect_access() enforce
a rotation of the log file before restarting the server on Windows to
make sure that a given step does not find logs generated by a previous
test, but that's not the case of issues_sql_like().  Looking at the
existing tests using this routine (src/bin/scripts/), I have found on
test in 090_reindexdb.pl that could lead to a false positive.  The
test is marked in the patch attached, just for awareness.

Would there be any objections to change this routine so as we avoid
the file truncation on Windows?  The patch attached achieves that.

Any thoughts?
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Replace magic constants for seek() calls in perl scripts

  2. Allow TestLib::slurp_file to skip contents, and use as needed