Re: Win32 regression tests

Tom Lane wrote:

>Claudio Natoli <claudio(dot)natoli(at)memetrics(dot)com> writes:
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>>However, a number of tests fail purely because, for some reason, ERROR
>>messages seem to get printed out at the end of the test, instead of where
>>expected, and sometimes with an extra blank line. I've included a few
>>examples below.
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>>Anyway care to hazard a guess as to what the cause could be, and how to
>>correct?
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>Lack of fflush(stderr) maybe? On Unix systems stderr is line-buffered
>and so it's seldom necessary to fflush it, but perhaps Windows gets this
>wrong (yawn...).
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Or unbuffered. On Linux "man setbuf " says:

The standard error stream stderr is always unbuffered by default.

Perhaps on Windows we should put a call to "setbuf(stderr,NULL)"
somewhere right at the beginning of each program.

cheers

andrew