The current code can have pg_isready unexpectedly succeed if there is a
server running on the default port. To avoid this we delay running the
test until after a node has been created but before it starts, and then
use that node's port, so we are fairly sure there is nothing running on
the port.
Backpatch to all live branches.
Slow hosts may avoid load-induced, spurious failures by setting
environment variable PG_TEST_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT to some number of seconds
greater than 180. Developers may see faster failures by setting that
environment variable to some lesser number of seconds. In tests, write
$PostgreSQL::Test::Utils::timeout_default wherever the convention has
been to write 180. This change raises the default for some briefer
timeouts. Back-patch to v10 (all supported versions).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220218052842.GA3627003@rfd.leadboat.com
Buildfarm members skink and sungazer have both recently failed this
test, with symptoms indicating that the default 3-second timeout
isn't quite enough for those very slow systems. There's no reason
to be miserly with this timeout, so boost it to 60 seconds.
Back-patch to all versions containing this test. That may be overkill,
because the failure has only been observed in the v10 branch, but
I don't feel like having to revisit this later.
The original code was a bit clunky; make it more amenable for further
reuse by creating a new Perl package PostgresNode, which is an
object-oriented representation of a single server, with some support
routines such as init, start, stop, psql. This serves as a better basis
on which to build further test code, and enables writing tests that use
more than one server without too much complication.
This commit modifies a lot of the existing test files, mostly to remove
explicit calls to system commands (pg_ctl) replacing them with method
calls of a PostgresNode object. The result is quite a bit more
straightforward.
Also move some initialization code to BEGIN and INIT blocks instead of
having it straight in as top-level code.
This commit also introduces package RecursiveCopy so that we can copy
whole directories without having to depend on packages that may not be
present on vanilla Perl 5.8 installations.
I also ran perltidy on the modified files, which changes some code sites
that are not otherwise touched by this patch. I tried to avoid this,
but it ended up being more trouble than it's worth.
Authors: Michael Paquier, Álvaro Herrera
Review: Noah Misch
