2022年12月5日(月) 23:59 Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com>: > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 11:29 PM Ian Lawrence Barwick <barw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Though on reflection maybe it's overkill and the existing tests > > suffice. Anyway leaving the patch here in the interests of pushing > > this forward in some direction. > > Do you think that there is a scenario where 008_untar.pl and > 009_extract.pl pass but this test fails, alerting us to a problem that > would otherwise have gone undetected? If so, what is that scenario? > > The only thing that I can think of would be if $decompress_program > --test were failing, but actually trying to decompress succeeded. I > would be inclined to dismiss that particular scenario as not important > enough to be worth the additional CPU cycles.
Yeah, it doesn't really add anything, so let's close this one off. Thanks for the feedback Ian Barwick