Re-enable SSL connect_fails tests, and fix related race conditions. Cluster.pm's connect_fails routine has long had the ability to sniff the postmaster log file for expected messages after a connection failure. However, that's always had a race condition: on some platforms it's possible for psql to exit and the test script to slurp up the postmaster log before the backend process has been able to write out its final log messages. Back in commit 55828a6b6 we disabled a bunch of tests after discovering that, and the aim of this patch is to re-enable them.
(The sibling function connect_ok doesn't seem to have a similar problem, mainly because the messages we look for come out during the authentication handshake, so that if psql reports successful connection they should certainly have been emitted already.) The solution used here is borrowed from 002_connection_limits.pl's connect_fails_wait routine: set the server's log_min_messages setting to DEBUG2 so that the postmaster will log child-process exit, and then wait till we see that log entry before checking for the messages we are actually interested in. If a TAP test uses connect_fails' log_like or log_unlike options, and forgets to set log_min_messages, those connect_fails calls will now hang until timeout. Fixing up the existing callers shows that we had several other TAP tests that were in theory vulnerable to the same problem. It's unclear whether the lack of failures is just luck, or lack of buildfarm coverage, or perhaps there is some obscure timing effect that only manifests in SSL connections. In any case, this change should in principle make those other call sites more robust. I'm not inclined to back-patch though, unless sometime we observe an actual failure in one of them. Reported-by: Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> Author: Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/984fca80-85a8-4c6f-a5cc-bb860950b...@dunslane.net Branch ------ master Details ------- https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e0f373ee42a40a41bdfc025a1641d351580991c4 Modified Files -------------- src/test/authentication/t/001_password.pl | 2 + src/test/authentication/t/003_peer.pl | 2 + src/test/kerberos/t/001_auth.pl | 1 + src/test/ldap/t/001_auth.pl | 2 + src/test/modules/oauth_validator/t/001_server.pl | 2 + src/test/perl/PostgreSQL/Test/Cluster.pm | 19 +++++-- src/test/ssl/t/001_ssltests.pl | 67 ++++++++++-------------- 7 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
