Re: parallel.c is not marked as test covered

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:50:33AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > do $$begin
> > Perform stringu1::int2 from tenk1 where unique1 = 1;
> > end$$;
> >
> > ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "BAAAAA"
> > CONTEXT: parallel worker, PID 4460
> > SQL statement "SELECT stringu1::int2 from tenk1 where unique1 = 1"
> > PL/pgSQL function inline_code_block line 2 at PERFORM
> >
> > Considering above analysis is correct, we have below options:
> > a. Modify the test such that it actually generates an error and to hide
the
> > context, we can exception block and raise some generic error.
> > b. Modify the test such that it actually generates an error and to hide
the
> > context, we can use force_parallel_mode = regress;
>
> Either of those sounds okay. No need to raise a generic error; one can
raise
> SQLERRM to keep the main message and not the context. I lean toward (a)
so we
> have nonzero test coverage of force_parallel_mode=on.
>

Do you mean to say nonzero test coverage of force_parallel_mode=on for
error paths? I see that for force_parallel_mode=on, we have another test
in select_parallel.sql

set force_parallel_mode=1;

explain (costs off)

select stringu1::int2 from tenk1 where unique1 = 1;

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
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