Re: Some incorrect logs in TAP tests of pgbench

On 6/25/21 8:33 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While digging into some of the TAP tests, I have noticed that
> 002_pgbench_no_server.pl prints array pointers, like that:
> opts=-f no-such-file, stat=1, out=ARRAY(0x1374d7990),
> err=ARRAY(0x14028dc40), name=pgbench option error: no file# Running:
> pgbench -f no-such-file
>
> I am a bit dubious that this information is useful when it comes to
> debugging because we have the name of the tests close by, so I would
> just remove those extra logs.  If people prefer keeping this
> information around, we could fix the format with something like the
> attached, for example.
>
> Thoughts?


Either that or dereference them, by printing @$out and @$err instead of
$out and $err or something similar.

But probably the name of the test is sufficient. (What were we thinking
in allowing this in the first place?)


cheers


andrew

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