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Michael Paquier
ba15f16107 Add PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster::config_data()
This is useful to grab some configuration information from a node
already set up, and I personally found two cases for it: pg_upgrade and
a test to emulate check_guc.

Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211129030833.GJ17618@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YJ8xTmLQkotVLpN5@paquier.xyz
2022-02-08 10:35:27 +09:00
Andrew Dunstan
acea505186 Improve msys2 detection for TAP tests
Perl instances on some msys toolchains (e.g. UCRT64) have their
configured osname set to 'MSWin32' rather than 'msys'.  The test for
the msys2 platform is adjusted accordingly.

Backpatch to release 14.
2022-01-27 08:27:56 -05:00
Noah Misch
ce6d79368e On sparc64+ext4, suppress test failures from known WAL read failure.
Buildfarm members kittiwake, tadarida and snapper began to fail
frequently when commits 3cd9c3b921 and
f47ed79cc8 added tests of concurrency, but
the problem was reachable before those commits.  Back-patch to v10 (all
supported versions).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220116210241.GC756210@rfd.leadboat.com
2022-01-26 18:06:19 -08:00
Tom Lane
4fdbf9af51 Tighten TAP tests' tracking of postmaster state some more.
Commits 6c4a8903b et al. had a couple of deficiencies:

* The logic I added to Cluster::start to see if a PID file is present
could be fooled by a stale PID file left over from a previous
postmaster.  To fix, if we're not sure whether we expect to find a
running postmaster or not, validate the PID using "kill 0".

* 017_shm.pl has a loop in which it just issues repeated Cluster::start
calls; this will fail if some invocation fails but leaves self->_pid
set.  Per buildfarm results, the above fix is not enough to make this
safe: we might have "validated" a PID for a postmaster that exits
immediately after we look.  Hence, match each failed start call with
a stop call that will get us back to the self->_pid == undef state.
Add a fail_ok option to Cluster::stop to make this work.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGKV6fOHvfiPt8=dOKzvswjAyLoFoJF1iQXMNpi7+hD1JQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-20 17:28:07 -05:00
Tom Lane
6c4a8903b9 TAP tests: check for postmaster.pid anyway when "pg_ctl start" fails.
"pg_ctl start" might start a new postmaster and then return failure
anyway, for example if PGCTLTIMEOUT is exceeded.  If there is a
postmaster there, it's still incumbent on us to shut it down at
script end, so check for the PID file even though we are about
to fail.

This has been broken all along, so back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/647439.1642622744@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-01-19 16:29:09 -05:00
Tom Lane
ed48e3582e Clean up TAP tests' usage of wait_for_catchup().
By default, wait_for_catchup() waits for the replication connection
to reach the primary's write LSN.  That's fine, but in an apparent
attempt to save one query round-trip, it was coded so that we
executed pg_current_wal_lsn() again during each probe query.
Thus, we presented the standby with a moving target to be reached.
(While the test script itself couldn't be causing the write LSN
to advance while it's blocked in wait_for_catchup(), it's plenty
plausible that background activity such as autovacuum is emitting
more WAL.)  That could make the test take longer than necessary,
and potentially it could mask bugs by allowing the standby to process
more WAL than a strict interpretation of the test scenario allows.
So, change wait_for_catchup() to do it "by the book", explicitly
collecting the write LSN to wait for at the outset.

Also, various call sites were instructing wait_for_catchup() to
wait for the standby to reach the primary's insert LSN rather than
its write LSN.  This also seems like a bad idea.  While in most
test scenarios those are the same, if they are different then the
inserted-but-not-yet-written WAL is not presently available to the
standby.  The test isn't doing anything to make it become so, so
again we have the potential for unwanted test delay, perhaps even
a test timeout.  (Again, background activity would be needed to
make this more than a hypothetical problem.)  Hence, change the
callers where necessary so that the wait target is always the
primary's write LSN.

While at it, simplify callers by making use of wait_for_catchup's
default arguments wherever possible (the preceding change makes
this possible in more places than it was before).  And rewrite
wait_for_catchup's documentation a bit.

Patch by me; thanks to Julien Rouhaud for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2368336.1641843098@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-01-16 13:29:02 -05:00
Jeff Davis
a2ab9c06ea Respect permissions within logical replication.
Prevent logical replication workers from performing insert, update,
delete, truncate, or copy commands on tables unless the subscription
owner has permission to do so.

Prevent subscription owners from circumventing row-level security by
forbidding replication into tables with row-level security policies
which the subscription owner is subject to, without regard to whether
the policy would ordinarily allow the INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE or
TRUNCATE which is being replicated.  This seems sufficient for now, as
superusers, roles with bypassrls, and target table owners should still
be able to replicate despite RLS policies.  We can revisit the
question of applying row-level security policies on a per-row basis if
this restriction proves too severe in practice.

Author: Mark Dilger
Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis, Andrew Dunstan, Ronan Dunklau
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9DFC88D3-1300-4DE8-ACBC-4CEF84399A53%40enterprisedb.com
2022-01-07 17:40:56 -08:00
Bruce Momjian
27b77ecf9f Update copyright for 2022
Backpatch-through: 10
2022-01-07 19:04:57 -05:00
Andres Freund
45f52709d8 Make PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS work for tap tests on windows.
We need to replace windows-style \ path separators with / when putting socket
directories either in postgresql.conf or libpq connection strings, otherwise
they are interpreted as escapes.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4da250a5-4222-1522-f14d-8a72bcf7e38e@enterprisedb.com
2021-12-13 11:29:51 -08:00
Tom Lane
92e70796e9 Doc: update some things relevant to minimum Test::More version.
Oversights in commit 405f32fc4.

Also, add a tip (discovered the hard way) about getting Test::More
0.98 to pass its regression tests on recent Linux platforms.
2021-11-21 11:49:16 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan
405f32fc49 Require version 0.98 of Test::More for TAP tests
This means that the subtest feature will be available for use.

We expect that this change will make prairiedog go red until it is
updated, but other buildfarm animals should be fine.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f5e1d308-4e33-37a7-bdf1-f6e0c75119de@dunslane.net
2021-11-20 17:54:43 -05:00
Daniel Gustafsson
05d8785af2 Document PG_TEST_NOCLEAN in TAP test README
Commit 90627cf98 added support for retaining the data directory even on
successful tests, but failed to document the environment variable which
controls retention. This adds a small note to the TAP test README about
PG_TEST_NOCLEAN which when set skips removing the data directories from
successful tests.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2B02C1B3-3F41-4E14-92B9-005D83623A0B@yesql.se
2021-11-12 21:38:10 +01:00
Tom Lane
b21415595c Doc: improve README files associated with TAP tests.
Rearrange src/test/perl/README so that the first section is more
clearly "how to run these tests", and the rest "how to write new
tests".  Add some basic info there about debugging test failures.
Then, add cross-refs to that READNE from other READMEs that
describe how to run TAP tests.

Per suggestion from Kevin Burke, though this is not his original
patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKcy5eiSbwiQnmCfnOnDCVC7B8fYyev3E=6pvvECP9pLE-Fcuw@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-31 18:12:44 -04:00
Tom Lane
7f580aa5d8 Improve contrib/amcheck's tests for CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.
Commits fdd965d07 and 3cd9c3b92 tested CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY by
launching two separate pgbench runs concurrently.  This was needed so
that only a single client thread would run CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY,
avoiding deadlock between two CICs.  However, there's a better way,
which is to use an advisory lock to prevent concurrent CICs.  That's
better in part because the test code is shorter and more readable, but
mostly because it automatically scales things to launch an appropriate
number of CICs relative to the number of INSERT transactions.
As committed, typically half to three-quarters of the CIC transactions
were pointless because the INSERT transactions had already stopped.

In passing, remove background_pgbench, which was added to support
these tests and isn't needed anymore.  We can always put it back
if we find a use for it later.

Back-patch to v12; older pgbench versions lack the
conditional-execution features needed for this method.

Tom Lane and Andrey Borodin

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/139687.1635277318@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-10-28 11:45:14 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
b3b4d8e68a Move Perl test modules to a better namespace
The five modules in our TAP test framework all had names in the top
level namespace. This is unwise because, even though we're not
exporting them to CPAN, the names can leak, for example if they are
exported by the RPM build process. We therefore move the modules to the
PostgreSQL::Test namespace. In the process PostgresNode is renamed to
Cluster, and TestLib is renamed to Utils. PostgresVersion becomes simply
PostgreSQL::Version, to avoid possible confusion about what it's the
version of.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aede93a4-7d92-ef26-398f-5094944c2504@dunslane.net

Reviewed by Erik Rijkers and Michael Paquier
2021-10-24 10:28:19 -04:00
Noah Misch
fdd965d074 Avoid race in RelationBuildDesc() affecting CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.
CIC and REINDEX CONCURRENTLY assume backends see their catalog changes
no later than each backend's next transaction start.  That failed to
hold when a backend absorbed a relevant invalidation in the middle of
running RelationBuildDesc() on the CIC index.  Queries that use the
resulting index can silently fail to find rows.  Fix this for future
index builds by making RelationBuildDesc() loop until it finishes
without accepting a relevant invalidation.  It may be necessary to
reindex to recover from past occurrences; REINDEX CONCURRENTLY suffices.
Back-patch to 9.6 (all supported versions).

Noah Misch and Andrey Borodin, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Andres
Freund.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210730022548.GA1940096@gust.leadboat.com
2021-10-23 18:36:38 -07:00
Andrew Dunstan
15124d0e22 Fix PostgresNode install_path sanity tests that fail on Windows
Backpatch to 14 where install_path was introduced.
2021-10-15 12:56:29 -04:00
Michael Paquier
f9c4cb6868 Add more $Test::Builder::Level in the TAP tests
Incrementing the level of the call stack reported is useful for
debugging purposes as it allows to control which part of the test is
exactly failing, especially if a test is structured with subroutines
that call routines from Test::More.

This adds more incrementations of $Test::Builder::Level where debugging
gets improved (for example it does not make sense for some paths like
pg_rewind where long subroutines are used).

A note is added to src/test/perl/README about that, based on a
suggestion from Andrew Dunstan and a wording coming from both of us.

Usage of Test::Builder::Level has spread in 12, so a backpatch down to
this version is done.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Peter Eisentraut, Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YV1CCFwgM1RV1LeS@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 12
2021-10-12 11:15:44 +09:00
Tom Lane
3eb1f4d097 Doc: update testing recipe in src/test/perl/README.
The previous text didn't provide any clear explanation of our policy
around TAP test portability.  The recipe for using perlbrew had some
problems, too: it resulted in a non-shared libperl (preventing
testing of plperl) and it caused some modules to be updated to
current when the point of the recipe is to build an old environment.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1mYY6Z-0006OL-QN@gemulon.postgresql.org
2021-10-10 17:55:36 -04:00
Tom Lane
93fb39eca6 Update test/perl/README to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3, too.
Oversight in previous commit, noted by Daniel Gustafsson.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87y278s6iq.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2021-10-07 14:42:45 -04:00
Andres Freund
2f74db1236 Fix TestLib::slurp_file() with offset on windows.
3c5b0685b9 used setFilePointer() to set the position of the filehandle, but
passed the wrong filehandle, always leaving the position at 0. Instead of just
fixing that, remove use of setFilePointer(), we have a perl fd at this point,
so we can just use perl's seek().

Additionally, the perl filehandle wasn't closed, just the windows filehandle.

Reviewed-By: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211003173038.64mmhgxctfqn7wl6@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.6-, like 3c5b0685b9
2021-10-04 13:28:06 -07:00
Michael Paquier
0d91c52a8f Fix places in TestLib.pm in need of adaptation to the output of Msys perl
Contrary to the output of native perl, Msys perl generates outputs with
CRLFs characters.  There are already places in the TAP code where CRLFs
(\r\n) are automatically converted to LF (\n) on Msys, but we missed a
couple of places when running commands and using their output for
comparison, that would lead to failures.

This problem has been found thanks to the test added in 5adb067 using
TestLib::command_checks_all(), but after a closer look more code paths
were missing a filter.

This is backpatched all the way down to prevent any surprises if a new
test is introduced in stable branches.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1252480.1631829409@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-09-22 08:42:42 +09:00
Michael Paquier
de1d4fef71 Add PostgresNode::command_fails_like()
This is useful to test for a command failure with some default
connection parameters associated to a node, in combination with checks
on error patterns expected.  This routine will be used by an upcoming
future patch, but could be also plugged into some of the existing
tests.

Extracted from a larger patch by the same author.

Author: Ronan Dunklau
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5742739.ga3mSNWIix@aivenronan
2021-09-01 10:28:01 +09:00
Andrew Dunstan
bad1067522 Make TestLib::perl2host more consistent and robust
Sometimes cygpath has been observed to return a path with a trailing
slash. That can cause problems, Also, make "cygpath" usage
consistent with "pwd -W" with respect to the use of forward slashes.

Backpatch to release 14 where the current code was introduced.
2021-07-29 12:15:03 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
87076c4083 Add a getter function for a PostgresNode install_path
Experience has shown this can be useful, and while not strictly necessary
we should not normally expose the internals of PostgresNode objects.
2021-07-29 05:58:08 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
1e8d89f880 Add PostgresVersion.pm method to emit the major version string
For versions before 10, this will produce dotted notation unless a
separator argument is given, in which case it is used.
2021-07-29 05:58:08 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
5dc932f9e7 Remove the last vestiges of Exporter from PostgresNode
Clients wanting to call get_free_port now need to do so via a qualified
name: PostgresNode::get_free_port().
2021-07-29 05:58:08 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
201a76183e Unify PostgresNode's new() and get_new_node() methods
There is only one constructor now for PostgresNode, with the idiomatic
name 'new'. The method is not exported by the class, and must be called
as "PostgresNode->new('name',[args])". All the TAP tests that use
PostgresNode are modified accordingly. Third party scripts will need
adjusting, which is a fairly mechanical process (I just used a sed
script).
2021-07-29 05:58:08 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
dbfe6e4b17 Add adjust_conf method to PostgresNode
This method will modify or delete an existing line in the config file
rather than simply appending to the file. This makes adjustment of files
for older versions much simpler and more compact.
2021-07-29 05:58:07 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
b33259e261 Add -w back to the flags for pg_ctl (re)start in PostgresNode
This is now the default for pg_ctl, but having the flag here explicitly
does no harm and helps with backwards compatibility of the PostgresNode
module.
2021-07-29 05:58:06 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
5798ca5299 Improve TestLib::system_or_bail error reporting
The original coding was not quoting the complete failing command, and it
wasn't printing the reason for the failure either.  Do both.

This is cosmetic only, so no backpatch.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202106301524.eq5pblzstapj@alvherre.pgsql
2021-07-06 17:51:59 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
e1c1c30f63 Pre branch pgindent / pgperltidy run
Along the way make a slight adjustment to
src/include/utils/queryjumble.h to avoid an unused typedef.
2021-06-28 11:05:54 -04:00
Michael Paquier
a9e0b3b08f Ignore more environment variables in pg_regress.c
This is similar to the work done in 8279f68 for TestLib.pm, where
environment variables set may cause unwanted failures if using a
temporary installation with pg_regress.  The list of variables reset is
adjusted in each stable branch depending on what is supported.

Comments are added to remember that the lists in TestLib.pm and
pg_regress.c had better be kept in sync.

Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YMNR9GYDn+fHlMta@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-06-13 20:07:39 +09:00
Tom Lane
f452aaf7d4 Restore robustness of TAP tests that wait for postmaster restart.
Several TAP tests use poll_query_until() to wait for the postmaster
to restart.  They were checking to see if a trivial query
(e.g. "SELECT 1") succeeds.  However, that's problematic in the wake
of commit 11e9caff8, because now that we feed said query to psql
via stdin, we risk IPC::Run whining about a SIGPIPE failure if psql
quits before reading the query.  Hence, we can't use a nonempty
query in cases where we need to wait for connection failures to
stop happening.

Per the precedent of commits c757a3da0 and 6d41dd045, we can pass
"undef" as the query in such cases to ensure that IPC::Run has
nothing to write.  However, then we have to say that the expected
output is empty, and this exposes a deficiency in poll_query_until:
if psql fails altogether and returns empty stdout, poll_query_until
will treat that as a success!  That's because, contrary to its
documentation, it makes no actual check for psql failure, looking
neither at the exit status nor at stderr.

To fix that, adjust poll_query_until to insist on empty stderr as
well as a stdout match.  (I experimented with checking exit status
instead, but it seems that psql often does exit(1) in cases that we
need to consider successes.  That might be something to fix someday,
but it would be a non-back-patchable behavior change.)

Back-patch to v10.  The test cases needing this exist only as far
back as v11, but it seems wise to keep poll_query_until's behavior
the same in v10, in case we back-patch another such test case in
future.  (9.6 does not currently need this change, because in that
branch poll_query_until can't be told to accept empty stdout as
a success case.)

Per assorted buildfarm failures, mostly on hoverfly.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+zM6L4QSA1XMvXY_qqWwdUmqkOS1+hWvL8QcYEBGA1Uw@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-12 15:12:10 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
11e9caff82 In PostgresNode.pm, don't pass SQL to psql on the command line
The Msys shell mangles certain patterns in its command line, so avoid
handing arbitrary SQL to psql on the command line and instead use
IPC::Run's redirection facility for stdin. This pattern is already
mostly whats used, but query_poll_until() was not doing the right thing.

Problem discovered on the buildfarm when a new TAP test failed on msys.
2021-06-03 16:14:06 -04:00
Michael Paquier
8279f68a1b Ignore more environment variables in TAP tests
Various environment variables were not getting reset in the TAP tests,
which would cause failures depending on the tests or the environment
variables involved.  For example, PGSSL{MAX,MIN}PROTOCOLVERSION could
cause failures in the SSL tests.  Even worse, a junk value of
PGCLIENTENCODING makes a server startup fail.  The list of variables
reset is adjusted in each stable branch depending on what is supported.

While on it, simplify a bit the code per a suggestion from Andrew
Dunstan, using a list of variables instead of doing single deletions.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YLbjjRpucIeZ78VQ@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-06-03 11:50:56 +09:00
Noah Misch
d03eeab886 Raise a timeout to 180s, in test 010_logical_decoding_timelines.pl.
Per buildfarm member hornet.  Also, update Pod documentation showing the
lower value.  Back-patch to v10, where the test first appeared.
2021-05-31 00:29:58 -07:00
Andrew Dunstan
bdbb2ce7d5 Install PostgresVersion.pm
A lamentable oversight on my part meant that when PostgresVersion.pm was
added in commit 4c4eaf3d19 provision to install it was not added to the
Makefile, so it was not installed along with the other perl modules.
2021-05-20 15:11:17 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
8bdd6f563a Use a more portable way to get the version string in PostgresNode
Older versions of perl on Windows don't like the list form of pipe open,
and perlcritic doesn't like the string form of open, so we avoid both
with a simpler formulation using qx{}.

Per complaint from Amit Kapila.
2021-05-20 08:07:08 -04:00
Tom Lane
def5b065ff Initial pgindent and pgperltidy run for v14.
Also "make reformat-dat-files".

The only change worthy of note is that pgindent messed up the formatting
of launcher.c's struct LogicalRepWorkerId, which led me to notice that
that struct wasn't used at all anymore, so I just took it out.
2021-05-12 13:14:10 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
8b82de0164 Remove extraneous newlines added by perl copyright patch 2021-05-07 11:37:37 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
8fa6e6919c Add a copyright notice to perl files lacking one. 2021-05-07 10:56:14 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
fa26eba221 Improve logic in PostgresVersion.pm
Handle the situation where perl swaps the order of operands of
the comparison operator. See `perldoc overload` for details:

The third argument is set to TRUE if (and only if) the two
operands have been swapped. Perl may do this to ensure that the
first argument ($self) is an object implementing the overloaded
operation, in line with general object calling conventions.
2021-04-27 08:21:15 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
aa271209f6 Teach PostgresVersion all the ways to mark non-release code
As well as 'devel' version_stamp.pl provides for 'alphaN'
'betaN' and 'rcN', so teach PostgresVersion about those.

Also stash the version string instead of trying to reconstruct it during
stringification.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YIHlw5nSgAHs4dK1@paquier.xyz
2021-04-24 09:37:20 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
502dc6df8f Make PostgresVersion code a bit more robust and simple.
per gripe from Alvaro Herrera.
2021-04-22 15:27:05 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
4c4eaf3d19 Make PostgresNode version aware
A new PostgresVersion object type is created and this is used in
PostgresNode using the output of `pg_config --version` and the result
stored in the PostgresNode object.  This object can be compared to other
PostgresVersion objects, or to a number or string.

PostgresNode is currently believed to be compatible with versions down
to release 12, so PostgresNode will issue a warning if used with a
version prior to that.

No attempt has been made to deal with incompatibilities in older
versions - that remains work to be undertaken in a subsequent
development cycle.

Based on code from Mark Dilger and Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a80421c0-3d7e-def1-bcfe-24777f15e344@dunslane.net
2021-04-22 10:56:28 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
e014d25dea fix silly perl error in commit d064afc720 2021-04-21 11:17:29 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
d064afc720 Only ever test for non-127.0.0.1 addresses on Windows in PostgresNode
This has been found to cause hangs where tcp usage is forced.

Alexey Kodratov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/82e271a9a11928337fcb5b5e57b423c0@postgrespro.ru

Backpatch to all live branches
2021-04-21 10:21:22 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
95c3a1956e Avoid unfortunate IPC::Run path caching in PostgresNode
Commit b34ca595ab provided for installation-aware instances of
PostgresNode. However, it turns out that IPC::Run works against this by
caching the path to a binary and not consulting the path again, even if
it has changed. We work around this by calling Postgres binaries with
the installed path rather than just a bare name to be looked up in the
environment path, if there is an installed path. For the common case
where there is no installed path we continue to use the bare command
name.

Diagnosis and solution from Mark Dilger

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E8F512F8-B4D6-4514-BA8D-2E671439DA92@enterprisedb.com
2021-04-20 10:36:10 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
3c5b0685b9 Allow TestLib::slurp_file to skip contents, and use as needed
In order to avoid getting old logfile contents certain functions in
PostgresNode were doing one of two things. On Windows it rotated the
logfile and restarted the server, while elsewhere it truncated the log
file. Both of these are unnecessary. We borrow from the buildfarm which
does this instead: note the size of the logfile before we start, and
then when fetching the logfile skip to that position before accumulating
contents. This is spelled differently on Windows but the effect is the
same. This is largely centralized in TestLib's slurp_file function,
which has a new optional parameter, the offset to skip to before
starting to reading the file. Code in the client becomes much neater.

Backpatch to all live branches.

Michael Paquier, slightly modified by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YHajnhcMAI3++pJL@paquier.xyz
2021-04-16 17:19:08 -04:00