Re: buildfarm warnings

On 2022-02-17 15:22:08 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> OK, sounds good, thanks. I couldn't (and still can't) think of a good
> way of testing the progress-reporting code either. I mean I guess if
> you could convince pg_basebackup not to truncate the filenames, maybe
> by convincing it that your terminal is as wide as your garage door,
> then you could capture the output and do some tests against it. But I
> feel like the test code would be two orders of magnitude larger than
> the code it intends to exercise, and I'm not sure it would be entirely
> robust, either.

How about just running pg_basebackup with --progress in one or two of the
tests? Of course that's not testing very much, but at least it verifies not
crashing...