Re: Portability issues in shm_mq

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Meh.  I think you're putting a bit too much faith in your ability to
>>> predict the locus of bugs that you think aren't there.
>
>> Well, I'm open to suggestions.
>
> As a suggestion: it'd be worth explicitly testing zero-byte and one-byte
> messages, those being obvious edge cases.  Then, say, randomly chosen
> lengths in the range 100-1000; this would help ferret out odd-length
> issues.  And something with message sizes larger than the queue size.

All right, done.  Let's see if that tickles any edge cases we haven't
hit before.

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