Re: psql - improve test coverage from 41% to 88%

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>
Subject: Re: psql - improve test coverage from 41% to 88%
Date: 2020-08-03 02:06:19
Message-ID: 20200803020619.GK3317@paquier.xyz
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On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 11:10:23AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> +1. Also note that the Windows animals don't and probably will never
> support Expect, since Windows doesn't have PTYs. Expect.pm is in fact a
> pure perl module that sits on top of IO::Pty, which in turn sits on top
> of IO::Tty. So if you have those Expect.pm probably isn't a huge
> stretch. But let's not add a dependency if we can avoid it. And if we do
> add one it will need to be a soft one like the case you mentioned.

Even with that, do we really care about some code coverage specific to
Windows for tab-complete.c? Also, how complicated does the proposed
patch become if we remove the dependency to Expect.pm and just rely on
IO::Pty?
--
Michael

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