> On 2 Apr 2023, at 23:37, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> There's this XXX that I added:
>
>> @@ -57,11 +51,10 @@ sub test_streaming
>> COMMIT;
>> });
>>
>> - $in .= q{
>> - COMMIT;
>> - \q
>> - };
>> - $h->finish; # errors make the next test fail, so ignore them here
>> + $h->query_safe('COMMIT');
>> + $h->quit;
>> + # XXX: Not sure what this means
>> + # errors make the next test fail, so ignore them here
>>
>> $node_publisher->wait_for_catchup($appname);
>
> I still don't know what that comment is supposed to mean, unfortunately.
My reading of it is that it's ignoring any croak errors which IPC::Run might
throw if ->finish() isn't able to reap the psql process which had the \q.
I've added Amit who committed it in 216a784829c on cc: to see if he remembers
the comment in question and can shed some light. Skimming the linked thread
yields no immediate clues.
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Daniel Gustafsson