Re: postgresql test failures

2019-01-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
Thanks for the fix, it also fixed the problem here (also on Debian). On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 11:51:20AM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > I pushed a fix which seems to solve the problem at least on debian ... > > J' > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 09:00:59AM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > I had

Re: postgresql test failures

2019-01-20 Thread John Darrington
I pushed a fix which seems to solve the problem at least on debian ... J' On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 09:00:59AM +0100, John Darrington wrote: 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.

Re: postgresql test failures

2019-01-20 Thread John Darrington
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:

Re: postgresql test failures

2019-01-19 Thread John Darrington
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 foll

Re: postgresql test failures

2019-01-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
I'm pretty sure that this test is trying to create a database server of its own rather than using the system's server. It worked for me OK before without any special configuration, but it is not working with my new laptop. I think that John wrote this test, so perhaps he will have some thoughts.

Re: postgresql test failures

2019-01-19 Thread Jeremy L
Haven't looked at the bootstrapping from pspp, but have some experience with postgres connections. Postgresql generally requires a database to exist on the cluster on the server for the client to connect to. There may be a system-provided "postgres" database you can use, then create your "blp"