[Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#831234: Bug#831234: Bug#831234: postgresql-9.5: FTBFS: Tests failures

[Christoph Berg]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 FTBFS when built with username "user"

Re: Stephen Frost 2016-07-14 <20160714142721.GL4028 at tamriel.snowman.net>
> * Lucas Nussbaum (lucas at debian.org) wrote:
> > (This might be related to the fact that I use a "user" login on my build
> > machine)
> 
> Yes, it is.
> 
> We could possibly remove those tests, but I'm not really thrilled with
> that idea.  I'm not sure if it'd be at all sensible to try and write
> something to check if the role "user" already exists.
> 
> One thing we could do is provide an alternate expected file which has
> the results when this test is run with a login user of "user".  That
> doesn't seem great either though.
> 
> In any case, this should probably be sent over to the pgsql-hackers
> list.

Hi,

TBH, I'm not even sure if this is a bug. "user" is so overly generic
that it shouldn't be used as a user name in the first place.
Lucas, can't you just use "buildd" or the like?

If pg_regress supported output variations that would just apply to
some parts (like patches do), we could add that, but a full _1.out
copy of the file just for this corner case sounds like overkill. (And
as there's no direct way to add comments to the _1.out file,
remembering why it was created might be difficult as well.)

Christoph
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