On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 01:21:45PM -0200, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> In my days of Perl, it was starting to become frowned upon to call
> subroutines without parenthesizing arguments.  Is that no longer the
> case?

I've not witnessed those frowns.

> Because I notice there are many places in this patch and pre-
> existing that call psql with an argument list without parens.  And it's
> a bit odd because I couldn't find any other subroutine that we're using
> in that way.

TestLib.pm has unparenthesized calls to "standard_initdb", "start" and "run".
070_dropuser.pl has such calls to "start_test_server" and "psql".

> In 005_replay_delay there's a 2s delay configured; then we test whether
> something is replayed in 1s.  I hate tests that run for a long time, but
> is 2s good enough considering that some of our test animals in buildfarm
> are really slow?

That test will be unreliable, agreed.


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