On 04/15/2017 11:44 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> Alternatively, we could have an initdb TAP test that explicitly removed
>> the environment setting so we'd get coverage of select_default_timezone,
>> and have the buildfarm set TZ to something if it's not already set.
> What about having an initdb option that runs select_default_timezone
> only and reports the result, so that it can be used in the buildfarm
> script to set TZ in all the regular initdb calls?
>


Seems like more work.

What I had in mind was the attached plus roughly this in the buildfarm
client:

    $ENV{TZ} ||= 'US/Eastern';

or whatever zone we choose to use.

cheers

andrew

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diff --git a/src/bin/initdb/t/001_initdb.pl b/src/bin/initdb/t/001_initdb.pl
index 372865d..11d05c4 100644
--- a/src/bin/initdb/t/001_initdb.pl
+++ b/src/bin/initdb/t/001_initdb.pl
@@ -34,8 +34,16 @@ command_fails(
 	'role names cannot begin with "pg_"');
 
 mkdir $datadir;
-command_ok([ 'initdb', '-N', '-T', 'german', '-X', $xlogdir, $datadir ],
-	'successful creation');
 
+# make sure we run one successful test without a TZ setting so we test
+# initdb's time zone setting code
+{
+	# delete local only works from perl 5.12, so use the older way to do this
+	local (%ENV) = %ENV;
+	delete $ENV{TZ};
+
+	command_ok([ 'initdb', '-N', '-T', 'german', '-X', $xlogdir, $datadir ],
+		'successful creation');
+}
 command_ok([ 'initdb', '-S', $datadir ], 'sync only');
 command_fails([ 'initdb', $datadir ], 'existing data directory');
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