Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X

On 10/07/2014 12:15 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>>> The TAP tests
>>> are arguably already much easier to debug than pg_regress ever was.
>> Well, maybe. I wasn't able, after about 5 minutes of searching, to
>> locate either a log file with details of the failure or the code that
>> revealed what the test, the expected result, and the actual result
>> were. It's possible that all that information is there and I just
>> don't know where to look; it took me a while to learn where the
>> various logs (postmaster.log, initdb.log, results) left behind by
>> pg_regress were, too. If that information is not there, then I'd say
>> it's not easier to debug. If it is and I don't know where to look ...
>> well then I just need to get educated.
> The given case seemed pretty opaque to me too. Could we maybe
> have some documentation about how to debug TAP failures? Or in
> other words, if they're "arguably" easier to debug, how about
> presenting that argument?
>
> Also to the point: does the buildfarm script know how to collect
> the information needed to debug a TAP failure?
>
>

No. In fact, it doesn't yet know how to run those tests. That's on my
TODO list.

cheers

andrew