Re: Binary protocol patch v7

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Kris Jurka wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Mikko Tiihonen wrote:
>
>> Just to remind you that the I updated the patches for sending receiving
>> columns in v3 binary format are available at:
>> http://mokki.dyndns.org/~mtiihone/postgresql/binarytransfer/
>>
>
> I was actually looking at the v7 patch earlier this week, specifically
> looking at the conversion code.  To try and throw some of the toughest test
> cases at it I modified the timestamp and time zone test code like
> k1-timestamp-test.patch.  When running the tests with a
> build.local.properties including binaryTransfer=true and preparethreshold=1
> this test fails.
>
> So I thought about ways to get more testing without having to rewrite every
> single regression test.  I'm not suggesting committing any of this code, but
> it's just something I hacked together to try more cases.
>

With the attached patch and binaryTransfer=true and preparethreshold=1 in
build.local.properties I was able to run the regression tests completely
and got a number of failures.

1) DatabaseMetaData creates ResultSets by sometimes pulling raw bytes out
of another ResultSet, so it needs to also pass the binary flag to the new
ResultSet.

2) A number of failures in date/time tests.  It seems to have
some problems with time zones.  Also, conversion to strings
should result in something identical to the text format.

3) There's also a couple of fake failures due to the methodology used.
testUpdateStreams and testHoldableResultSet fail only because of the
changes I made.

Kris Jurka