Re: Warn when parallel restoring a custom dump without data offsets

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 01:54:29PM -0500, David Gilman wrote:
> > Is it possible to dump to stdout (or pipe to cat or dd) to avoid a new option ?
> 
> The underlying IPC::Run code seems to support piping in a cross-platform
> way. I am not a Perl master though and after spending an evening trying
> to get it to work I went with this approach. If you can put me in touch
> with anyone to help me out here I'd appreciate it.

I think you can do what's needed like so:

--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/t/002_pg_dump.pl
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/t/002_pg_dump.pl
@@ -152,10 +152,13 @@ my %pgdump_runs = (
        },
        defaults_custom_format_no_seek_parallel_restore => {
                test_key => 'defaults',
-               dump_cmd => [
-                       'pg_dump', '-Fc', '-Z6', '--no-sync', '--disable-seeking',
+               dump_cmd => (
+                       [
+                       'pg_dump', '-Fc', '-Z6', '--no-sync',
                        "--file=$tempdir/defaults_custom_format_no_seek_parallel_restore.dump", 'postgres',
-               ],
+                       ],
+                       "|", [ "cat" ], # disable seeking
+               ),

Also, these are failing intermittently:

t/002_pg_dump.pl .............. 1649/6758
#   Failed test 'defaults_custom_format_no_seek_parallel_restore: should dump GRANT SELECT (proname ...) ON TABLE
pg_procTO public'
 
#   at t/002_pg_dump.pl line 3635.
# Review defaults_custom_format_no_seek_parallel_restore results in
/var/lib/pgsql/postgresql.src/src/bin/pg_dump/tmp_check/tmp_test_NqRC

t/002_pg_dump.pl .............. 2060/6758 
#   Failed test 'defaults_dir_format_parallel: should dump GRANT SELECT (proname ...) ON TABLE pg_proc TO public'
#   at t/002_pg_dump.pl line 3635.
# Review defaults_dir_format_parallel results in /var/lib/pgsql/postgresql.src/src/bin/pg_dump/tmp_check/tmp_test_NqRC

If you can address those, I think this will be "ready for committer".

-- 
Justin