On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 02:05:13PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2017-04-22 16:22:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > > On 2017-04-22 13:51:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > >> I think we need to fix TestLib and/or PostgresNode so that there's a way > > >> to make TAP tests not auto-clean their data directories at end of run, > > >> without having to resort to editing the script like this. > > > > > I think leaving the directory around in case of failures would be a > > > pretty bare minimum. It's sometimes also useful to keep the remains if > > > everything was apparently successfull, but it's far less important imo. > > > > In the particular case I was interested in here, the test script thought > > everything was successful :-(. I'm working on fixing that little problem, > > but I do not believe that the TAP scripts are so bulletproof that there > > will never be a need to override their judgment. > > Agreed. If paths are reproducible and cleaned up on next run it's also > much less of an issue to just leave them around till the next run. > Which we imo also should do for non-failing tmp_check directories.
In general yes, but I think it should be checked what the overall storage requirements will be if one set of all data directories is kept around. I was surprised the src/bin/pg_basebackup/t TAP tests took up several hundred megabytes (IIRC) when I ran them, so if other tests are similar, it might make a few animals run out of diskspace as soon as this is deployed without a heads-up to the operators. Michael -- Michael Banck Projektleiter / Senior Berater Tel.: +49 2166 9901-171 Fax: +49 2166 9901-100 Email: michael.ba...@credativ.de credativ GmbH, HRB Mönchengladbach 12080 USt-ID-Nummer: DE204566209 Trompeterallee 108, 41189 Mönchengladbach Geschäftsführung: Dr. Michael Meskes, Jörg Folz, Sascha Heuer -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
