Re: pgsql: Fix pattern matching logic for logs in TAP tests of pgbench

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Fix pattern matching logic for logs in TAP tests of pgbench
Date: 2021-06-27 01:22:24
Message-ID: YNfS0FB8XFbKlsbt@paquier.xyz
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On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 11:01:07AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 6/26/21 2:47 AM, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>> However, if slurp_file fails it raises an exception and aborts the
>> whole TAP unexpectedly, which is pretty unclean. So I'd suggest to
>> keep the eval, as attached. I tested it by changing the file name so
>> that the slurp fails.
>
> Seem quite unnecessary. We haven't found that to be an issue elsewhere
> in the code where slurp_file is used. And in the present case we know
> the file exists because we got its name from list_files().

Agreed. That's an exchange between a hard failure mid-test and a
failure while letting the whole test run. Here, we expect the test to
find the log file all the time, so a hard failure does not sound like
a bad thing to me either.
--
Michael

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