On 2022-07-24 Su 15:10, Noah Misch wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:55:56PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: >>> fairywren (msys2 animal) is currently hung in the pg_basebackup tests. >>> Here's the bottom of the regress log. I don't have further info as yet, >>> but can dig is someone has a suggestion. >> Hm, what's with the "Use of uninitialized value" warnings? > The warnings are sequelae of: > >>> [13:11:33.593](0.000s) not ok 97 - one tablespace tar was created > >From that, it follows that $tblspc_tars[0] is undef at: > > PostgreSQL::Test::Utils::system_or_bail($tar, 'xf', $tblspc_tars[0], > '-C', $repTsDir); > >>> # Running: C:/Windows/System32/tar xf -C >>> C:\tools\nmsys64\home\pgrunner\bf\root\REL_15_STABLE\pgsql.build\src\bin\pg_basebackup\tmp_check\tmp_test_jVCb/tblspc1replica
Perhaps we should have a guard in system_or_bail() and/or system_log() which bails if some element of @_ is undefined. > I can confirm that Windows tar hangs when invoked that way. For preventing > the hang, the test file could die() or skip the tar-program-using section > after failing 'one tablespace tar was created'. That still leaves a question > about why pg_basebackup didn't make the tablespace tar file. I would check > 010_pg_basebackup_main.log for clues about that. The same thing has happened again on HEAD. I don't see anything in that file that gives any clue. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com