Re: pgsql: Add 'basebackup_to_shell' contrib module.

On 3/31/22 11:32, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 10:52 AM Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>>> We should probably fix the test though, so it doesn't require Unix
>>> sockets. It should be possible, although I haven't looked yet to see how.
>> Our mutual colleague Neha Sharma pointed out this email message to me:
>> http://postgr.es/m/106926.1643842376@sss.pgh.pa.us

Yep, that's kinda what I was expecting.

>> I actually don't understand why using pg_regress --auth-extra would
>> fix it, or what that option does, or why we're even running pg_regress
>> at all in PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster::init. I think it might be to fix
>> this exact issue, but there's no SGML documentation for pg_regress,

I really don't know why this stuff is in pg_regress at all. It seems
rather odd to me and it's annoyed me for a while. But that's a fight for
another day.

> I'm not volunteering to fix that, but this comment in pg_regress.c
> is probably adequately illuminating:
>
> * Rewrite pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf to use SSPI authentication. Permit
> * the current OS user to authenticate as the bootstrap superuser and as any
> * user named in a --create-role option.
>
> This script is creating users manually rather than letting the TAP
> infrastructure do it, which is an antipattern.
>
>

Yeah, I think the fix is as simple as the attached.

cheers

andrew

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