Re: Coverage (lcov) failing with inconsistent error in versions 2.x

On 2026-Jul-01, Jacob Champion wrote:

> We could rewrite https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CodeCoverage, maybe.

We could rewrite it, yes, but lower effort for me today was to _reread_
it, and in doing so I realized that we disabled branch reporting seven
years ago while we waited for a new GCC version; that fixed GCC version
being now ancient history, I have reenabled branch coverage.

One totally not funny thing is that with that enabled, lcov fails in
even more interesting ways; now you need to give "inconsistent,mismatch"
in LCOVFLAGS. So the whole thing is

make coverage-html LCOVFLAGS="-q -j0 --ignore-errors usage,negative,inconsistent,mismatch" GENHTML_FLAGS="-q -j0 --legend --ignore-errors unmapped,corrupt,inconsistent,range"

I added -j0 to both so that they run parallel processes, which should be
a few second faster. In practice it may make no difference, because the
real time eater is the xid_wraparound test, which lasts for 10 minutes
after all the other tests have completed:

# +++ tap check in src/test/modules/xid_wraparound +++
t/002_limits.pl ............ ok
t/004_notify_freeze.pl ..... ok
t/001_emergency_vacuum.pl .. ok
t/003_wraparounds.pl ....... ok
All tests successful.
Files=4, Tests=23, 415 wallclock secs ( 0.04 usr 0.00 sys + 7.31 cusr 3.81 csys = 11.16 CPU)
Result: PASS

Regards

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