> It looks to me like the reason that the ecpg tests went into an > infinite > loop is that compat_informix/test_informix.pgc has not considered the > possibility of repeated statement failures: > ...
Correct, this was missing a safeguard. > I know zip about ecpg coding practices, but wouldn't it be a better > idea > to break out of the loop on seeing an error? I wonder if it would be better to make the test cases use the proper whenever command instead. That would give us a slightly better functionality testing I'd say. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL