Re: [PATCH] Add tests for Bitmapset

On Sep 15 2025, at 2:54 pm, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM Greg Burd <greg(at)burd(dot)me> wrote:
>> For reference radixtree has:
>>
>> coverage: HEAD
>> lines......: 98.3
>> functions..: 97.2
>> branches...: 89.4
>
> + /* Test negative member in bms_make_singleton */
> + error_caught = false;
> + PG_TRY();
> + {
> + bms_make_singleton(-1);
> + }
> + PG_CATCH();
> + {
> + error_caught = true;
> + FlushErrorState();
> + }
> + PG_END_TRY();
> + EXPECT_TRUE(error_caught);
>
> This is an anti-pattern for PostgreSQL code. You can't just flush an
> error without aborting a transaction or subtransaction to recover.
> Even if it could be shown that this were harmless here, I think it's a
> terrible idea to have code like this in the tree, as it encourages
> people to do exactly the wrong thing.

Fair enough, I'll rework it.

> But backing up a step, this also doesn't really seem like the right
> way to test the error conditions. It deliberately throws away the
> error message. All this verifies is that you caught an error. If you
> let the error escape to the client you could have the expected output
> test that you got the expected message.
>
> I think it would be a better idea to structure this as a set of
> SQL-callable functions and move a bunch of the logic into SQL.

I'll give that approach a try, thanks for the suggestion.

-greg

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