On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 3:51 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > On 2022-02-17 15:22:08 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > > OK, sounds good, thanks. I couldn't (and still can't) think of a good > > way of testing the progress-reporting code either. I mean I guess if > > you could convince pg_basebackup not to truncate the filenames, maybe > > by convincing it that your terminal is as wide as your garage door, > > then you could capture the output and do some tests against it. But I > > feel like the test code would be two orders of magnitude larger than > > the code it intends to exercise, and I'm not sure it would be entirely > > robust, either. > > How about just running pg_basebackup with --progress in one or two of the > tests? Of course that's not testing very much, but at least it verifies not > crashing...
True. That would be easy enough. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
