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Re: psql - add SHOW_ALL_RESULTS option

Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>

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From: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, "shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com" <shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-04-15T11:51:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hello Tom,

>> That's a lot IMO, so my vote would be to discard this feature for now
>> and revisit it properly in the 15 dev cycle, so as resources are
>> redirected into more urgent issues (13 open items as of the moment of
>> writing this email).
>
> I don't wish to tell people which open issues they ought to work on
> ... but this patch seems like it could be quite a large can of worms,
> and I'm not detecting very much urgency about getting it fixed.
> If it's not to be reverted then some significant effort needs to be
> put into it soon.

My overly naive trust in non regression test to catch any issues has been 
largely proven wrong. Three key features do not have a single tests. Sigh.

I'll have some time to look at it over next week-end, but not before.

-- 
Fabien.

Commits

  1. psql: Show all query results by default

  2. psql: Refactor ProcessResult()

  3. psql: Refactor SendQuery()

  4. psql: Add test for psql behavior on server crash

  5. psql: Additional tests

  6. Improve some psql test code

  7. psql: Fix some scan-build warnings

  8. psql: Add test for handling of replication commands

  9. psql: More tests

  10. psql: Add various tests

  11. psql: Add test for query canceling

  12. Revert "psql: Show all query results by default"

  13. Extend a test case a little