Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-02-13 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, Kevin Grittner wrote: I just got to the point of having what appears to be a working but poorly optimized version of serializable transactions, Cool. so it is critical that I create a good set of tests to confirm correct behavior and monitor for regressions as I optimize. I see that

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-02-12 Thread Kevin Grittner
[off-list to avoid distracting from the 9.0 wrap-up effort] Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch wrote: Quoting Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov: I strongly encourage you to set that up on git.postgresql.org. I'm about to provide git repositories for Postgres-R anyway, so I've setup

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-02-12 Thread Kevin Grittner
I wrote: [off-list to avoid distracting from the 9.0 wrap-up effort] Arg. I really didn't mean that to go to the list. :-( -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-19 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, Jan Urbański wrote: sorry to butt in to the conversation, but I have spent some time wrapping/refining the concepts in dtester, and the results are here: http://git.wulczer.org/?p=twisted-psql.git;a=summary That seems to cover the concurrent psql part of dtester. But I don't see how

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-18 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, Quoting Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov: I strongly encourage you to set that up on git.postgresql.org. I'm about to provide git repositories for Postgres-R anyway, so I've setup two projects on git.postgres-r.org: dtester: that's the driver/harness code postgres-dtests: a

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-16 Thread Jan Urbański
Markus Wanner wrote: I do want to expand the tests quite a bit -- do I work them all into this same file, or how would I proceed? I think I'll need about 20 more tests, but I don't want to get in the way of your work on the framework which runs them. Well, first of all, another piece of

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-16 Thread Kevin Grittner
Markus Wanner wrote: Kevin Grittner wrote: I differentiate tests and test suites. Tests mainly have a run method, while test suites have setUp and tearDown ones. I hadn't caught on to that distinction yet. That should help. uses means that the referenced task has complimentary setUp and

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-16 Thread Kevin Grittner
Markus Wanner wrote: Kevin Grittner wrote: args=['psql', '-A', '--pset=pager=off', That looks like a correct fix for psql, yes. Other processes might be confused by (or at least act differently with) a PAGER env variable, so that still needs to be cleared in general. I

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch wrote: I must admit that I haven't ever tested on python 2.6 before. I'll try that (especially as it's the staircase to 3.0, IIUC). I don't use python much, so I can't comment on that. I do see that my system has these two versions on it, with a symlink that

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
I wrote: I'll also attach the results of the 2.6 attempt. Let's try that again. -Kevin kgri...@kgrittn-desktop:~/git/postgresql/kgrittn$ make dcheck make -C src/test dcheck make[1]: Entering directory `/home/kgrittn/git/postgresql/kgrittn/src/test' make

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, Quoting Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov: I haven't quite gotten it to work yet; I'll start over with 3.0 and see how it goes. Let's stick to 2.x versions, first... I'll also attach the results of the 2.6 attempt. Thanks, that looks already pretty promising. ;-) A few

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch wrote: Quoting Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov: I haven't quite gotten it to work yet; I'll start over with 3.0 and see how it goes. Let's stick to 2.x versions, first... OK It does: temp_install: creating temporary installation means it's

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch wrote: Second: at the very end of pg_dtester.py, you find the line: reporter = StreamReporter() Try a CursesReporter() instead, it gives much nicer output! When I try to do that, Kate complains (I'm even copying their typo): You are trying to save a

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Dead or not, it still works, even against 8.4. I have many programs that use it. It's simply a wrapper around the libpq interface and as long as the libpq interface remains stable (which we go to great pains to

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, Kevin Grittner wrote: Not sure what's relevant there. Entire file tarball attached. Due to reasons mentioned in this thread as well, I've decided to use psql to connect to the database. dtester is parsing its output and checks that against expectations. Hawever, that has its own

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, Kevin Grittner wrote: You are trying to save a python file as non ASCII, without specifiying a correct source encoding line for encoding utf-8 I wasn't aware I had non-ascii characters in there. Inserting an encoding line seems fine. I'll fix that for the upcoming version 0.1. Regards

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch wrote: I wasn't aware I had non-ascii characters in there. Inserting an encoding line seems fine. I'll fix that for the upcoming version 0.1. Yeah, I couldn't find any, either. I just tried creating a minimal python file in Kate, and it gave me that even

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch wrote: Strangely, your log has escape codes in it, which I'm assuming makes the parsing choke. Is that something special to your installation? My psql never colors its outputs... I haven't configured anything like that intentionally. I don't *see* any colors

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, Kevin Grittner wrote: I haven't configured anything like that intentionally. I don't *see* any colors when I use psql. Can you think of anywhere I should check something which might be causing this? No idea ATM. However, just to make sure that has absolutely nothing to do with the

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch wrote: Strangely, your log has escape codes in it, which I'm assuming makes the parsing choke. Is that something special to your installation? My pager is less; could that cause it? Could the twisted environment look like one where the pager should kick in?

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, Kevin Grittner wrote: My pager is less; could that cause it? Could the twisted environment look like one where the pager should kick in? Yes, that could be it. At least it fails here, too, if I set PAGER=less. Try: PAGER=more make dcheck So, the solution probably lies in adjusting

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Markus Wanner wrote: Hi, Kevin Grittner wrote: My pager is less; could that cause it? Could the twisted environment look like one where the pager should kick in? Yes, that could be it. At least it fails here, too, if I set PAGER=less. Try: PAGER=more make dcheck Surely for

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch wrote: So, the solution probably lies in adjusting the environment, before starting psql. (Maybe even dropping all existing environment variables for better control of the situation). Will add that for dtester 0.1. Based on Andrew's suggestion, I changed

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote: Also, in looking closer at how you have the tests defined, it doesn't look to me like you're carefully interleaving specific sequences of statements on specific connections so much as opening multiple connections and then for each statement

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch wrote: Please recheck with the StreamReporter and try to grep the lines starting with [psql0], [psql1] and [psql2]. Dtester simply logs all and any output of all 3rd party processes started. For me, all psql output seems to be [psql0]; no [psql1] or [psql2].

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch wrote: Go try it, read the code and simply ask, if you get stuck. I'll try to come up with some more documentation and such... I'm a little unclear about the differences between uses, depends, and onlyAfter. Here's what they *sound* like they mean, to me;

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, Kevin Grittner wrote: I'm a little unclear about the differences between uses, depends, and onlyAfter. Here's what they *sound* like they mean, to me; although I don't think the code isn't entirely consistent with this interpretation. Wow, you are way ahead of me. I intended to write

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-15 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, Kevin Grittner wrote: Based on Andrew's suggestion, I changed line 276 to: args=['psql', '-A', '--pset=pager=off', That looks like a correct fix for psql, yes. Thanks for pointing that out Andrew. Other processes might be confused by (or at least act differently with) a

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-14 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, Markus Wanner wrote: Sorry, if that didn't get clear. I'm trying to put together something I can release real soon now (tm). I'll keep you informed. Okay, here we go: dtester version 0.0. This emerged out of Postgres-R, where I don't just need to test multiple client connections, but

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-14 Thread Kevin Grittner
Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch wrote: Okay, here we go: dtester version 0.0. C'mon, you could have tried to inspire a *bit* more confidence by calling it version 0.1 or something! ;-) It's certainly missing lots of things, mainly documentation. However, I've attached a patch which

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-14 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, Kevin Grittner wrote: C'mon, you could have tried to inspire a *bit* more confidence by calling it version 0.1 or something! ;-) LOL As David used to say: JFDI I found that I just needed to ask for python-twisted. Oh, sorry, yes, requirements: python, twisted. I must admit that I

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:17:42AM -, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: Because you'd have to build DBD::Pg against the new libpq, as you do psql. That means you need DBD::Pg sources and the build environment for Perl (headers etc) not just a working Perl runtime. Big difference. Yes,

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-11 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Is there a reason why you're suggesting using DBI? There is also the Pg perl module which works as well and is one tenth of the size. It also doesn't have external dependancies. It's just a plain wrapper around libpq, which for the purposes

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 05:42:08PM -, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: Is there a reason why you're suggesting using DBI? There is also the Pg perl module which works as well and is one tenth of the size. It also doesn't have external dependancies. It's just a plain wrapper around libpq,

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-10 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Using DBI/DBD::Pg would raise another issue - what version of libpq would it be using? Not the one in the build being tested, that's for

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-09 Thread Craig Ringer
On 8/01/2010 1:39 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Using DBI/DBD::Pg would raise another issue - what version of libpq would it be using? Not the one in the build being tested, that's for sure. Er...why not? That's what psql uses. Because

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread Craig Ringer
On 7/01/2010 9:15 AM, Robert Haas wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote: David E. Wheelerda...@kineticode.com wrote: Last I heard, Andrew was willing to require Test::More for testing, so that a Perl script could handle multiple psql

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Doing this without DBI is going to be ten times harder than doing it with DBI. Are we really sure that's not a viable option? In the buildfarm? Yes, I think so. The philosophy of the buildfarm is that it should do what you would do

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread Marko Tiikkaja
On 2010-01-07 11:50 +0200, Craig Ringer wrote: On 7/01/2010 9:15 AM, Robert Haas wrote: Doing this without DBI is going to be ten times harder than doing it with DBI. Are we really sure that's not a viable option? At this point, I'm personally wondering if it's worth putting together a

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread Marko Tiikkaja
On 2010-01-07 18:13 +0200, Marko Tiikkaja wrote: I had a similar syntax in mind, but instead of using threads, just execute the file in order using asynchronous connections. I completely failed to make the point here which was to somehow mark which statements will (or, should) block. So here

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 6, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote: We have not yet fully accepted the notion that you must have Perl to build (and, in fact, I am right now trying to verify that you don't). I don't think that requiring Perl to test is going to fly. I believe that the build farm already requires

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Sabino Mullane g...@turnstep.com writes: We could even bundle DBI and DBD::Pg to ensure that the minimum versions are there. As a packager, my reaction to that is over my dead body. We have enough trouble keeping our own software up to date, and pretty much every external component that

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Dunstan
David E. Wheeler wrote: On Jan 6, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote: We have not yet fully accepted the notion that you must have Perl to build (and, in fact, I am right now trying to verify that you don't). I don't think that requiring Perl to test is going to fly. I believe that

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote: Using DBI/DBD::Pg would raise another issue - what version of libpq would it be using? Not the one in the build being tested, that's for sure. If you really want to use Perl then either a Pure Perl DBI driver (which Greg

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 08:40:28PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: A parallel psql seems to me a better way to go. We talked about that a while ago, but I don't recall what happened to it. Greg Stark had a patch a couple of years ago. Dunno what happened to it since then. Cheers, David. --

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 6, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: As far as I've been able to determine so far, to call psql in a relatively portable way would require something like this: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfork.html Here's an example using IPC::Open3: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes: Unless I am mistaken, Perl is required in any case to build from CVS, although not from a tarball. Right, but to my mind building from a tarball needs to include the ability to run the regression tests on what you built. So injecting Perl into that

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Right, but to my mind building from a tarball needs to include the ability to run the regression tests on what you built. So injecting Perl into that is moving the goalposts on build requirements. In that case, there's nothing for it except

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com writes: On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Right, but to my mind building from a tarball needs to include the ability to run the regression tests on what you built. So injecting Perl into that is moving the goalposts on build requirements. In

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Tom Lane wrote: In that case, there's nothing for it except concurrent psql. Unless we are prepared to define concurrency testing as something separate from the basic regression tests. Which is kind of annoying but perhaps less so than the alternatives. It

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Unless we are prepared to define concurrency testing as something separate from the basic regression tests. Which is kind of annoying but perhaps less so than the alternatives. It certainly seems to me to be the kind of thing you wouldn't

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Using DBI/DBD::Pg would raise another issue - what version of libpq would it be using? Not the one in the build being tested, that's for sure. Er...why not? That's what psql uses. As for those advocating using a custom C program written

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 We could even bundle DBI and DBD::Pg to ensure that the minimum versions are there. As a packager, my reaction to that is over my dead body. We have enough trouble keeping our own software up to date, and pretty much every external

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread Kevin Grittner
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com wrote: Kevin Grittner escribió: Are we anywhere close to an agreement on what the multi-session psql implementation would look like? See http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/8204.1207689...@sss.pgh.pa.us and followups. Thanks, I had missed

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread A.M.
On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: I'm still *very* interested in making a libpq-less pure perl driver, if anyone feels like funding it, let me know! :) You mean this one: http://search.cpan.org/~arc/DBD-PgPP-0.07/lib/DBD/PgPP.pm ? Cheers, M -- Sent via pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Dunstan
A.M. wrote: On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: I'm still *very* interested in making a libpq-less pure perl driver, if anyone feels like funding it, let me know! :) You mean this one: http://search.cpan.org/~arc/DBD-PgPP-0.07/lib/DBD/PgPP.pm ? It has a

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Kevin Grittner
David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com wrote: Last I heard, Andrew was willing to require Test::More for testing, so that a Perl script could handle multiple psql connections (perhaps forked) and output test results based on them. But he wasn't as interested in requiring DBI and DBD::Pg,

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2010-01-06 at 15:52 -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote: David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com wrote: Last I heard, Andrew was willing to require Test::More for testing, so that a Perl script could handle multiple psql connections (perhaps forked) and output test results based on them.

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 6, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: Last I heard, Andrew was willing to require Test::More for testing, so that a Perl script could handle multiple psql connections (perhaps forked) and output test results based on them. But he wasn't as interested in requiring DBI and DBD::Pg,

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 6, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Then I don't see much of a point in using Perl. You might as well fire up a few psqls from a shell script If you're more comfortable with shell, then yes. Although then it won't run on Windows, will it? Best, David -- Sent via

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Marko Tiikkaja
On 2010-01-07 00:08 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On ons, 2010-01-06 at 15:52 -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote: David E. Wheelerda...@kineticode.com wrote: Last I heard, Andrew was willing to require Test::More for testing, so that a Perl script could handle multiple psql connections (perhaps

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Kevin Grittner
Marko Tiikkaja marko.tiikk...@cs.helsinki.fi wrote: On 2010-01-07 00:08 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Then I don't see much of a point in using Perl. You might as well fire up a few psqls from a shell script. I don't see how that would work, but I might have misunderstood what we're

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Marko Tiikkaja wrote: On 2010-01-07 00:08 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Then I don't see much of a point in using Perl. You might as well fire up a few psqls from a shell script. I don't see how that would work, but I might have misunderstood what we're reaching for here. What I think

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Kevin Grittner
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com wrote: Open a few psql with -f pointing to a pipe, and from the shell write into the pipe? I don't think it's straightforward, but it should be possible. I'll play with it and see what I can do. Thanks, -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote: David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com wrote: Last I heard, Andrew was willing to require Test::More for testing, so that a Perl script could handle multiple psql connections (perhaps forked) and output test

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Robert Haas wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote: David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com wrote: Last I heard, Andrew was willing to require Test::More for testing, so that a Perl script could handle multiple psql connections (perhaps

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote: Doing this without DBI is going to be ten times harder than doing it with DBI.  Are we really sure that's not a viable option? In the buildfarm? Yes, I think so. The philosophy of the buildfarm is that it should do what

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: It just seems crazy to me to try to test anything without proper language bindings. Opening a psql session and parsing the results seems extraordinarily painful. I wonder if it would make sense write a small wrapper program that uses libpq and dumps

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Kevin Grittner
Tom Lane wrote: We have not yet fully accepted the notion that you must have Perl to build (and, in fact, I am right now trying to verify that you don't). I don't think that requiring Perl to test is going to fly. Well, if that's the consensus, I have to choose between trying to implement

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: It just seems crazy to me to try to test anything without proper language bindings.  Opening a psql session and parsing the results seems extraordinarily painful.  I wonder if it would

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Kevin Grittner
Robert Haas wrote: I'm not exactly sure what Kevin's goal is here. I think it would be insane to try to do something like serializable isolation mode without having regression tests. I would want more tests than could reasonably go into the 'make check' suite to support development, but it

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Kevin Grittner escribió: Well, if that's the consensus, I have to choose between trying to implement multi-session psql and using testing which can't carry over to long-term regular use. Are we anywhere close to an agreement on what the multi-session psql implementation would look like? (If

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote: For basic regression tests, yeah, we'd probably like to keep that Perl-free. OK.  Is parallel psql the only reasonable option? It seems so, assuming you're willing to concede that it is a reasonable option in

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Greg Smith
Robert Haas wrote: It just seems crazy to me to try to test anything without proper language bindings. Opening a psql session and parsing the results seems extraordinarily painful. I've written a Python based program that spawns a captive psql and talks to it--twice for different

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2010-01-06 at 14:10 -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote: On Jan 6, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Then I don't see much of a point in using Perl. You might as well fire up a few psqls from a shell script If you're more comfortable with shell, then yes. Although then it

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2010-01-06 at 20:49 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: Another idea would be to make a set of Perl libpq bindings that is simpler than DBD::Pg and don't go through DBI. If we put those in the main source tree (perhaps as a contrib module) they would be available wherever we need them.

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-05 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, Kevin Grittner wrote: It's very soon going to be critical that I be able to test particular interleavings of statements in particular concurrent transaction sets to be able to make meaningful progress on the serializable transaction work. I've something in place for Postgres-R, as I also

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-05 Thread Kevin Grittner
Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch wrote: Kevin Grittner wrote: It's very soon going to be critical that I be able to test particular interleavings of statements in particular concurrent transaction sets to be able to make meaningful progress on the serializable transaction work. I've

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-05 Thread Markus Wanner
Hi, Kevin Grittner wrote: Where would I find this (and any related documentation)? Sorry, if that didn't get clear. I'm trying to put together something I can release real soon now (tm). I'll keep you informed. Regards Markus Wanner -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-04 Thread Kevin Grittner
David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com wrote: I think the consensus was, failing support for concurrent sessions in psql, to use a Perl script to control multiple psql sessions and perhaps use Test::More to do the testing. Are there any examples of that? While I can hack my way through

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2010-01-04 at 17:10 -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote: David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com wrote: I think the consensus was, failing support for concurrent sessions in psql, to use a Perl script to control multiple psql sessions and perhaps use Test::More to do the testing. Are

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-04 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 4, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: If you're not deep into Perl, perhaps ignore the Test::More comment for the moment and just use DBI to connect to several database sessions, execute your queries and check if the results are what you want. Once you have gotten somewhere

Re: [HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-03 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 1, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: It's very soon going to be critical that I be able to test particular interleavings of statements in particular concurrent transaction sets to be able to make meaningful progress on the serializable transaction work. It would be wonderful if

[HACKERS] Testing with concurrent sessions

2010-01-01 Thread Kevin Grittner
There has been periodic discussion here about allowing psql to deal with multiple sessions, or possibly creating another tool to allow this sort of test. Is anyone working on this? It's very soon going to be critical that I be able to test particular interleavings of statements in particular