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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: ilmari@ilmari.org
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Add basic TAP tests for psql's tab-completion logic.
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 12:55:23 -0500
Message-ID: <27520.1578074123@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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ilmari@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari =?utf-8?Q?Manns=C3=A5ker?=) writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> Anybody know an easy way to do that in Perl?

> I was going to suggest using Test::More's like() function to do the
> regex check, but sadly that only escapes things that would break the TAP
> stream syntax, not non-printables in general.  The next obvious thing is
> Data::Dumper with the 'Useqq' option enabled, which makes it use
> double-quoted-string escapes (e.g. "\a" for ^G).

> The attaced patch does that, and also bumps $Test::Builder::Level so the
> diagnostic references the calling line, and uses diag() instad of
> note(), so it shows even in non-verbose mode.

LGTM, pushed (along with a fix to deal with what hopefully is the
only remaining obstacle for Andres' critters).

			regards, tom lane





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