On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 09:44:21AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 2022-07-24 Su 15:10, Noah Misch wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:55:56PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> >>> fairywren (msys2 animal) is currently hung in the pg_basebackup tests.
> >>> Here's the bottom of the regress log. I don't have further info as yet,
> >>> but can dig is someone has a suggestion.
> >> Hm, what's with the "Use of uninitialized value" warnings?
> > The warnings are sequelae of:
> >
> >>> [13:11:33.593](0.000s) not ok 97 - one tablespace tar was created
> > >From that, it follows that $tblspc_tars[0] is undef at:
> >
> > PostgreSQL::Test::Utils::system_or_bail($tar, 'xf', $tblspc_tars[0],
> > '-C', $repTsDir);
> >
> >>> # Running: C:/Windows/System32/tar xf -C
> >>>
C:\tools\nmsys64\home\pgrunner\bf\root\REL_15_STABLE\pgsql.build\src\bin\pg_basebackup\tmp_check\tmp_test_jVCb/tblspc1replica
>
> Perhaps we should have a guard in system_or_bail() and/or system_log()
> which bails if some element of @_ is undefined.
That would be reasonable. Also reasonable to impose some long timeout, maybe
10x or 100x PG_TEST_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT, on calls to those functions.