Re: Latest Data::Dumper breaks hstore_plperl regression test

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Latest Data::Dumper breaks hstore_plperl regression test
Date: 2017-05-14 03:32:29
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZXZmq_vp8fUj-TKfY0LgWe+xaPQaq_Vs15CcfodGiq2g@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Or at least, that's what I surmise from the fact that buildfarm critter
> caiman has been failing that test for the last day or so, with symptoms
> indicating whitespace changes in Data::Dumper output. Some poking into
> the Fedora repo shows that rawhide updated perl-Data-Dumper from 2.161
> to 2.167 on May 11, so that fits ...

Depending on the precise details of how Data::Dumper prints things
doesn't seem like a particularly good idea.

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Robert Haas
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