Re: pg_upgrade test chatter

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade test chatter
Date: 2021-10-20 01:55:31
Message-ID: 202110200155.jeev2mn6o6sy@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2021-Oct-19, Tom Lane wrote:

> I tried doing this as a one-liner change in pg_regress's
> drop_database_if_exists(), but the idea fell over pretty
> quickly, because what underlies that is a "psql -c" call:
>
> $ psql -c 'set client_min_messages = warning; drop database if exists foo'
> ERROR: DROP DATABASE cannot run inside a transaction block
>
> We could dodge that, with modern versions of psql, by issuing
> two -c switches.

Isn't it easier to pass client_min_messages via PGOPTIONS?

PGOPTIONS="-c client_min_messages=warning" psql -c "drop database if exists foo"

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