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
See also afdeff1052. Failures after that commit provided a few more hints,
but not yet enough to understand what's going on.
In 019_replslot_limit.pl shut down nodes with fast instead of immediate mode
if we observe the failure mode. That should tell us whether the failures we're
observing are just a timing issue under high load. PGCTLTIMEOUT should prevent
buildfarm animals from hanging endlessly.
Also adds a bit more logging to replication slot drop and ShutdownPostgres().
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220225192941.hqnvefgdzaro6gzg@alap3.anarazel.de
Refactor the recovery tests to not carry a local duplicated copy of
the pump_until function which pumps a process until a defined string
is seen on a stream. This reduces duplication, and is in preparation
for another patch which will also use this functionality.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion https://postgr.es/m/YgynUafCyIu3jIhC@paquier.xyz
I have not been able to reproduce the occasional failures of
019_replslot_limit.pl we are seeing in the buildfarm and not for lack of
trying. The additional logging and increased log level will hopefully help.
Will be reverted once the cause is identified.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220218231415.c4plkp4i3reqcwip@alap3.anarazel.de
Following migration of Windows buildfarm members running TAP tests to
use of ucrt64 perl for those tests, special processing for msys perl is
no longer necessary and so is removed.
Backpatch to release 10
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c65a8781-77ac-ea95-d185-6db291e1baeb@dunslane.net
The 028_pitr_timelines.pl test would sometimes hang, waiting for a WAL
segment that was just filled up to be archived. It was because the
test used 'pg_stat_archiver.last_archived_wal' to check if a file was
archived, but the order that WAL files are archived when a standby is
promoted is not fully deterministic, and 'last_archived_wal' tracks
the last segment that was archived, not the highest-numbered WAL
segment. Because of that, if the archiver archived segment 3, and then
2, 'last_archived_wal' say 2, and the test query would think that 3
has not been archived yet.
Normally, WAL files are marked ready for archival in order, and the
archiver process will process them in order, so that issue doesn't
arise. We have used the same query on 'last_archived_wal' in a few
other tests with no problem. But when a standby is promoted, things
are a bit chaotic. After promotion, the server will try to archive all
the WAL segments from the old timeline that are in pg_wal, as well as
the history file and any new WAL segments on the new timeline. The
end-of-recovery checkpoint will create the .ready files for all the
WAL files on the old timeline, but at the same time, the new timeline
is opened up for business. A file from the new timeline can therefore
be archived before the files from the old timeline have been marked as
ready for archival.
It turns out that we don't really need to wait for the archival in
this particular test, because the standby server is about to be
stopped, and stopping a server will wait for the end-of-recovery
checkpoint and all WAL archivals to finish, anyway. So we can just
remove it from the test.
Add a note to the docs on 'pg_stat_archiver' view that files can be
archived out of order.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3186114.1644960507@sss.pgh.pa.us
The test has failed a couple of times on buildfarm member 'hoverfly'. It
gets stuck waiting for the standby to archive 000000020000000000000003
WAL segment. I don't understand why, but with DEBUG1, we will get messages
in the log whenever a segment is archived, which hopefully will give a
clue the next time it happens.
While I was working on a patch to refactor things around xlog.c, I mixed
up EndOfLogTLI and replayTLI at the end of recovery. As a result, if you
recovered to a point with a lower-numbered timeline in a WAL segment
that has a higher TLI in the filename, the end-of-recovery WAL record
was created with invalid PrevTimeLineId. I noticed that while
self-reviewing, but no tests failed. So add a test to cover that corner
case.
Thanks to Amul Sul who also submitted a test case for the same corner
case, although this patch is different from that.
Reviewed-by: Amul Sul, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/52bc9ccd-8591-431b-0086-15d9acf25a3f@iki.fi
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAJ_b94Vjt5cXGza_1MkjLQWciNdEemsmiWuQj0d%3DM7JfjAa1g%40mail.gmail.com
Rather than doing manual book keeping to plan the number of tests to run
in each TAP suite, conclude each run with done_testing() summing up the
the number of tests that ran. This removes the need for maintaning and
updating the plan count at the expense of an accurate count of remaining
during the test suite runtime.
This patch has been discussed a number of times, often in the context of
other patches which updates tests, so a larger number of discussions can
be found in the archives.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DD399313-3D56-4666-8079-88949DAC870F@yesql.se
Some pre-2017 Test::More versions need perfect $Test::Builder::Level
maintenance to find the variable. Buildfarm member snapper reported an
overall failure that the file intended to hide via the TODO construct.
That trouble was reachable in v11 and v10. For later branches, this
serves as defense in depth. Back-patch to v10 (all supported versions).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220202055556.GB2745933@rfd.leadboat.com
To avoid "ERROR: canceling statement due to conflict with recovery",
as seen on a couple of slower build farm animals, crank
max_standby_streaming_delay right up.
In passing, adjust a configuration option that accidentally used a
non-standard format (not a problem, but needlessly inconsistent).
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGK65xVqNgsSPyrr2LEwtfUN%3DGfEuQ868hTC-mu0bFG42A%40mail.gmail.com
The invocation of pg_regress in 027_stream_regress.pl didn't specify the
host. It ends up working on most systems because of connection
defaults. However, on windows it makes the test very slow unless
PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS is used.
The problem is that windows resolves "localhost" to ::0, 127.0.0.1, the server
started only listens on 127.0.0.1. On windows refused TCP connections are
internally retried a few times, with back-off between tries, taking at least 2
seconds.
Noticed while investigating a complaint about the test's slow speed by Andrew
Dunstan.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220127220351.kyp3bdaukfytmoqx@alap3.anarazel.de
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
In adverse circumstances, the fsync calls cause this test to run for
quite a long time (multiple minutes) and even suffer timeout failures.
This seems to date from before we made an effort to disable fsync in
all our test cases; there's not a lot of point in using it if there's
not a plan to force an O/S crash during the test.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/440239.1642560607@sss.pgh.pa.us
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
AFAICS we had no coverage of this point except in the seldom-used,
slated-for-removal standby_schedule test suite. Sequence updates
are enough different from regular table updates that it seems worth
covering them explicitly in src/test/recovery.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/999497.1641431891@sss.pgh.pa.us
Add a new TAP test under src/test/recovery to run the standard
regression tests while a streaming replica replays the WAL. This
provides a basic workout for WAL decoding and redo code, and compares
the replicated result.
Optionally, enable (expensive) wal_consistency_checking if listed in
the env variable PG_TEST_EXTRA.
Reviewed-by: 綱川 貴之 (Takayuki Tsunakawa) <tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <lubennikovaav@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKpRWQ9SxdxxDmTBCJoR0YnFpMBe7kyzY8SUQk%2BHeskxg%40mail.gmail.com
We've seen intermittent failures in this test on slower buildfarm
machines, which I think can be explained by assuming that autovacuum
emitted some additional WAL. Disable autovacuum to stabilize it.
In passing, use stringwise not numeric comparison to compare
WAL file names. Doesn't matter at present, but they are
hex strings not decimal ...
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1372189.1636499287@sss.pgh.pa.us
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
This adds tests checking for the execution of both commands. The
recovery test 002_archiving.pl is nicely adapted to that, as promotion
is triggered already twice there, and even if any of those commands fail
they don't affect recovery or promotion.
A command success is checked using a file generated by an "echo"
command, that should be able to work in all the buildfarm environments,
even Msys (but we'll know soon about that). Command failure is tested
with an "echo" command that points to a path that does not exist,
scanning the backend logs to make sure that the failure happens. Both
rely on the backend triggering the commands from the root of the data
folder, making its logic more robust.
Thanks to Neha Sharma for the extra tests on Windows.
Author: Amul Sul, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b95R_c4T5moq30qsybSU=eDzDHm=4SPiAWaiMWc2OW7=1Q@mail.gmail.com
The case checking for a NULL output when a slot does not exist was
too lax, as it was passing for any output generated by the query. This
fixes the matching pattern to be what it should be, matching only on
"||".
Oversight in b4ada4e.
The command is supported for physical slots for now, and returns the
type of slot, its restart_lsn and its restart_tli.
This will be useful for an upcoming patch related to pg_receivewal, to
allow the tool to be able to stream from the position of a slot, rather
than the last WAL position flushed by the backend (as reported by
IDENTIFY_SYSTEM) if the archive directory is found as empty, which would
be an advantage in the case of switching to a different archive
locations with the same slot used to avoid holes in WAL segment
archives.
Author: Ronan Dunklau
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18708360.4lzOvYHigE@aivenronan
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
The test code added with ff9f111bce fails under valgrind, and probably
other slow cases too, because if (say) autovacuum runs in between and
produces WAL of its own, the large INSERT fails to account for that in
the LSN calculations. Rewrite to use a DO loop.
Per complaint from Andres Freund
Backpatch to all branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211013180338.5guyqzpkcisqugrl@alap3.anarazel.de
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
Commit ff9f111bce added some test code that's unportable and doesn't
add meaningful coverage. Remove it rather than try and get it to work
everywhere.
While at it, fix a typo in a log message added by the aforementioned
commit.
Backpatch to 14.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3000074.1632947632@sss.pgh.pa.us
First, as pointed out by Tom Lane and Michael Paquier, I failed to
realize that Windows' PostgresNode needs an extra pg_hba.conf line
(added by PostgresNode->set_replication_conf, called internally by
->init() when 'allows_streaming=>1' is given -- but I purposefully
omitted that). I think a good fix should be to have nodes with only
'has_archiving=>1' set up for replication too, but that's a bigger
discussion. Fix it by calling ->set_replication_conf, which is not
unprecedented, as pointed out by Andrew Dunstan.
I also forgot to uncomment a ->finish() call for a pumpable IPC::Run
file descriptor. Apparently this is innocuous in almost all platforms.
Backpatch to 14. The older branches were added this file too, but not
this particular part of the test.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3000074.1632947632@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YVT7qwhR8JmC2kfz@paquier.xyz
Physical replication always ships WAL segment files to replicas once
they are complete. This is a problem if one WAL record is split across
a segment boundary and the primary server crashes before writing down
the segment with the next portion of the WAL record: WAL writing after
crash recovery would happily resume at the point where the broken record
started, overwriting that record ... but any standby or backup may have
already received a copy of that segment, and they are not rewinding.
This causes standbys to stop following the primary after the latter
crashes:
LOG: invalid contrecord length 7262 at A8/D9FFFBC8
because the standby is still trying to read the continuation record
(contrecord) for the original long WAL record, but it is not there and
it will never be. A workaround is to stop the replica, delete the WAL
file, and restart it -- at which point a fresh copy is brought over from
the primary. But that's pretty labor intensive, and I bet many users
would just give up and re-clone the standby instead.
A fix for this problem was already attempted in commit 515e3d84a0, but
it only addressed the case for the scenario of WAL archiving, so
streaming replication would still be a problem (as well as other things
such as taking a filesystem-level backup while the server is down after
having crashed), and it had performance scalability problems too; so it
had to be reverted.
This commit fixes the problem using an approach suggested by Andres
Freund, whereby the initial portion(s) of the split-up WAL record are
kept, and a special type of WAL record is written where the contrecord
was lost, so that WAL replay in the replica knows to skip the broken
parts. With this approach, we can continue to stream/archive segment
files as soon as they are complete, and replay of the broken records
will proceed across the crash point without a hitch.
Because a new type of WAL record is added, users should be careful to
upgrade standbys first, primaries later. Otherwise they risk the standby
being unable to start if the primary happens to write such a record.
A new TAP test that exercises this is added, but the portability of it
is yet to be seen.
This has been wrong since the introduction of physical replication, so
backpatch all the way back. In stable branches, keep the new
XLogReaderState members at the end of the struct, to avoid an ABI
break.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202108232252.dh7uxf6oxwcy@alvherre.pgsql
If the system crashed between CREATE TABLESPACE and the next checkpoint,
the result could be some files in the tablespace unexpectedly containing
no rows. Affected files would be those for which the system did not
write WAL; see the wal_skip_threshold documentation. Before v13, a
different set of conditions governed the writing of WAL; see v12's
<sect2 id="populate-pitr">. (The v12 conditions were broader in some
ways and narrower in others.) Users may want to audit non-default
tablespaces for unexpected short files. The bug could have truncated an
index without affecting the associated table, and reindexing the index
would fix that particular problem.
This fixes the bug by making create_tablespace_directories() more like
TablespaceCreateDbspace(). create_tablespace_directories() was
recursively removing tablespace contents, reasoning that WAL redo would
recreate everything removed that way. That assumption holds for other
wal_level values. Under wal_level=minimal, the old approach could
delete files for which no other copy existed. Back-patch to 9.6 (all
supported versions).
Reviewed by Robert Haas and Prabhat Sahu. Reported by Robert Haas.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaLO9ncuwvr2nN-J4VEP5XyAcy=zKiHxQzBbFRxxGxm0w@mail.gmail.com
Buildfarm shows that this test has a further failure mode when a
checkpoint starts earlier than expected, so we detect a "checkpoint
completed" line that's not the one we want. Change the config to try
and prevent this.
Per buildfarm
While at it, update one comment that was forgotten in commit
d18e75664a.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210729.162038.534808353849568395.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
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).
The new test code added in ead9e51e82 is racy -- it hinges on
shared-memory state, which changes before the WARNING message is logged.
Put it the other way around.
Backpatch to 13.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202107161809.zclasccpfcg3@alvherre.pgsql
When some slots are invalidated due to the max_slot_wal_keep_size limit,
the old segment horizon should move forward to stay within the limit.
However, in commit c655077639 we forgot to call KeepLogSeg again to
recompute the horizon after invalidating replication slots. In cases
where other slots remained, the limits would be recomputed eventually
for other reasons, but if all slots were invalidated, the limits would
not move at all afterwards. Repair.
Backpatch to 13 where the feature was introduced.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Marcin Krupowicz <mk@071.ovh>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17103-004130e8f27782c9@postgresql.org
The prove_installcheck recipe in src/Makefile.global.in was emitting
bogus paths for a couple of elements when used with PGXS. Here we create
a separate recipe for the PGXS case that does it correctly. We also take
the opportunity to make the make the file more readable by breaking up
the prove_installcheck and prove_check recipes across several lines, and
to remove the setting for REGRESS_SHLIB to src/test/recovery/Makefile,
which is the only set of tests that actually need it.
Backpatch to all live branches
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f2401388-936b-f4ef-a07c-a0bcc49b3300@dunslane.net
The code to signal a running walsender when its reserved WAL size grows
too large is completely uncovered before this commit; this adds coverage
for that case.
This test involves sending SIGSTOP to walsender and walreceiver, then
advancing enough WAL for a checkpoint to trigger, then sending SIGCONT.
There's no precedent for STOP signalling in Perl tests, and my reading
of relevant manpages says it's likely to fail on Windows. Because of
this, this test is always skipped on that platform.
This version fixes a couple of rarely hit race conditions in the
previous attempt 09126984a263; most notably, both LOG string searches
are loops, not just the second one; we acquire the start-of-log position
before STOP-signalling; and reference the correct process name in the
test description. All per Tom Lane.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202106102202.mjw4huiix7lo@alvherre.pgsql
This reverts commit 09126984a263; the test case added there failed once
in circumstances that remain mysterious. It seems better to remove the
test for now so that 14beta2 doesn't have random failures built in.
The code to signal a running walsender when its reserved WAL size grows
too large is completely uncovered before this commit; this adds coverage
for that case.
This test involves sending SIGSTOP to walsender and walreceiver and
running a checkpoint while advancing WAL, then sending SIGCONT. There's
no precedent for this coding in Perl tests, and my reading of relevant
manpages says it's likely to fail on Windows. Because of this, this
test is always skipped on that platform.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202106102202.mjw4huiix7lo@alvherre.pgsql
TestLib::perl2host can take a file argument as well as a directory
argument, so that code becomes substantially simpler. Also add comments
on why we're using forward slashes, and why we're setting
PERL_BADLANG=0.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e9947bcd-20ee-027c-f0fe-01f736b7e345@dunslane.net
Translate path slashes on target directory path. This was confusing old
branches, but is applied to all branches for the sake of uniformity.
Perl is perfectly able to understand paths with forward slashes.
Along the way, restore the previous archive_wait query, for the sake of
uniformity with other tests, per gripe from Tom Lane.
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.
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