On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Neha Khatri <nehakhat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2 > ndquadrant.com> wrote: > >> On 2/14/17 16:50, Jeff Janes wrote: >> > make installcheck currently fails against a server running >> > with bytea_output = escape. >> > >> > Making it succeed is fairly easy, and I think it is worth doing. >> > >> > Attached are two options for doing that. One overrides bytea_output >> > locally where-ever needed, and the other overrides it for the entire >> > 'regression' database. >> >> I would use option 2 here (ALTER DATABASE) and be done with it. Some >> people didn't like using ALTER DATABASE, but it's consistent with >> existing use. If someone wants to change that, that can be independent >> of this issue. > > > Sorry about the naive question, but if someone has set the GUC > bytea_output = 'escape', then the intention seem to be to obtain the output > in 'escape' format for bytea. > With this, if an installcheck is done, that might also have been done with > the expectation that the output will be in 'escape' format. In that case, > how much is it justified to hard code the format for regression database? > However, I agree that there are not many bytea outputs in the current > regression suite > > At a high level (which is all I know here) If we leave behind tests that at least exercise bytea_output='escape' mode to ensure it is functioning properly then I'd have no problem having the testing of other features dependent upon bytea_output, but that are coded to compare against the now-default output format, set that runtime configurable mode to that which they require. If the choice of output mode is simply a byproduct we should be free to set it to whatever we need for the currently executing test. If a simple way of doing this involves fixing the default to what the suite expects and one-off changing it when testing escape mode stuff that seems like a reasonable position to take. Having to set bytea_output when it isn't the item under test seems like its just going to add noise. David J.
