On 2023-05-04 Th 02:40, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On 25.04.23 12:27, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On 20.11.22 16:10, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
On 2022-11-19 Sa 15:16, Andres Freund wrote:
Hi,
On 2022-11-19 10:56:33 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Perhaps we should just export a directory in configure instead of this
guessing game?
I think the obvious candidate would be to export top_builddir from
src/Makefile.global. That would remove the need to infer it from
TESTDATADIR.
I think that'd be good. I'd perhaps rename it in the process so it's
exported uppercase, but whatever...
OK, pushed with a little more tweaking. I didn't upcase top_builddir
because the existing prove_installcheck recipes already export it and I
wanted to stay consistent with those.
If it works ok I will backpatch in couple of days.
These patches have affected pgxs-using extensions that have their own TAP tests.
The portlock directory is created at
my $build_dir = $ENV{top_builddir}
|| $PostgreSQL::Test::Utils::tmp_check ;
$portdir ||= "$build_dir/portlock";
but for a pgxs user, top_builddir points into the installation tree, specifically at $prefix/lib/pgxs/.
So when running "make installcheck" for an extension, we either won't have write access to that directory, or if we do, then it's still not good to write into the installation tree during a test suite.
A possible fix is
diff --git a/src/Makefile.global.in b/src/Makefile.global.in
index 5dacc4d838..c493d1a60c 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.global.in
+++ b/src/Makefile.global.in
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ rm -rf '$(CURDIR)'/tmp_check && \
$(MKDIR_P) '$(CURDIR)'/tmp_check && \
cd $(srcdir) && \
TESTDIR='$(CURDIR)' PATH="$(bindir):$(CURDIR):$$PATH" \
- PGPORT='6$(DEF_PGPORT)' top_builddir='$(top_builddir)' \
+ PGPORT='6$(DEF_PGPORT)' top_builddir='$(CURDIR)' \
PG_REGRESS='$(top_builddir)/src/test/regress/pg_regress' \
$(PROVE) $(PG_PROVE_FLAGS) $(PROVE_FLAGS) $(if $(PROVE_TESTS),$(PROVE_TESTS),t/*.pl)
endef
Better idea: Remove the top_builddir assignment altogether. I traced the history of this, and it seems like it was just dragged around with various other changes and doesn't have a purpose of its own.
The only effect of the current code (top_builddir='$(top_builddir)') is to export top_builddir as an environment variable. And the only Perl test code that reads that environment variable is the code that makes the portlock directory, which is exactly what we don't want. So just removing that seems to be the right solution.
Yeah, that should be OK in the pgxs case.
cheers
andrew
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