Re: [HACKERS] Failure in commit_ts tap tests

Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Hm, but what of the "null" value?  Also, I get
>> 
>> $ perl -e 'use warnings; use Test::More; ok("2017-01-01" != "null", "ok");'
>> Argument "null" isn't numeric in numeric ne (!=) at -e line 1.
>> Argument "2017-01-01" isn't numeric in numeric ne (!=) at -e line 1.
>> ok 1 - ok

> It declares the test as "passed", right?

Oh!  So it does.  That is one darn weird behavior of the != operator.

> I am not saying that's a correct
> behaviour, but that's why we didn't catch the problem earlier.

Check.  Mystery solved.

There's still the point that we're not actually exercising this script
in the buildfarm ...
        regards, tom lane