Re: pgsql: Add TAP test for archive_cleanup_command and recovery_end_comman

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 09:45:11AM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Delayed response to the question on how I did that, because it was a 4
> day weekend down here and I got distracted by sunshine...

Happy Easter.

> I think that sort of thing actually worked when I tried it on a
> beefier workstation, but it sent my Thinkpad that "only" has a 16GB of
> RAM into some kind of death spiral. The way I succeeded was indeed
> using a wrapper script, based on a suggestion from Andres, my
> kludgy-hardcoded-path-assuming implementation of which looked like:
>
> Yeah, it might be quite neat to find a tool-supported way to do that.

Thanks for the details. I feared that it was something like that for
the backend. At least that's better than having valgrind spawn all
the processes kicked by the make command. :/

> Tangentially, I'd also like to look into making
> PostgreSQL-under-Valgrind work on FreeBSD and macOS, which didn't work
> last time I tried it for reasons that might, I hope, have been fixed
> on the Valgrind side by now.

Okay.

As a side note, skink has cooled down since acf1dd4, and did not
complain either after the additions of e61efaf and 1a8b110.
--
Michael