I had a look at this, and spoke to some of the postgres people. It seems that postgres is not after all the guilty party. Debian is.
Debian's /usr/bin/psql is a wrapper around the real psql which breaks things. I'll see what the best way around this problem is. J' On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 08:53:15PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: I'm getting the same results. So I suspect the test needs to be adjusted to suit recent psqlserver versions. J' On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 09:16:09AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: I've recently had to move development to a new laptop because my previous one died suddenly. I'm getting the following test failure reliably on the new one. I don't know much about postgresql setup, so I'd appreciate any advice. # -*- compilation -*- 250. get-data-psql.at:147: testing GET DATA /TYPE=PSQL ... ../../tests/get-data-psql.at:149: PATH=$PG_PATH:$PATH initdb -A trust stdout: The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "blp". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale "C". The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "SQL_ASCII". The default text search configuration will be set to "english". Data page checksums are disabled. creating directory /home/blp/pspp/master/_build/tests/testsuite.dir/0250/cluster ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 100 selecting default shared_buffers ... 128MB selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... posix creating configuration files ... ok running bootstrap script ... ok performing post-bootstrap initialization ... ok syncing data to disk ... ok Success. You can now start the database server using: pg_ctl -D /home/blp/pspp/master/_build/tests/testsuite.dir/0250/cluster -l logfile start ../../tests/get-data-psql.at:149: PATH=$PG_PATH:$PATH pg_ctl start -w -o "-k $socket_dir -h ''" stdout: waiting for server to start....2019-01-19 09:12:25.681 PST [21495] LOG: listening on Unix socket "/tmp/tmp.xPYKH8shgE/.s.PGSQL.6543" 2019-01-19 09:12:25.719 PST [21557] LOG: database system was shut down at 2019-01-19 09:12:25 PST 2019-01-19 09:12:25.729 PST [21495] LOG: database system is ready to accept connections done server started ../../tests/get-data-psql.at:149: PATH=$PG_PATH:$PATH createdb -h "$socket_dir" -p $PG_PORT $PG_DBASE stderr: stdout: ../../tests/get-data-psql.at:149: psql -h "$socket_dir" -p $PG_PORT $PG_DBASE < populate.sql --- /dev/null 2019-01-14 21:20:12.627999704 -0800 +++ /home/blp/pspp/master/_build/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/250/stderr 2019-01-19 09:12:26.099989467 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +psql: FATAL: database "blp" does not exist stdout: 2019-01-19 09:12:26.102 PST [21859] FATAL: database "blp" does not exist ../../tests/get-data-psql.at:149: exit code was 2, expected 0 server shutting down 250. get-data-psql.at:147: 250. GET DATA /TYPE=PSQL (get-data-psql.at:147): FAILED (get-data-psql.at:149) _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list pspp-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list pspp-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev